Robert L Reymond’s John Calvin: His Life and Influence is a keeper. There I said it. This admission does not come with some hesitation. Why would you want this book? I think the answer lies with how desperate you are to know the story of JC (John Calvin not Jesus Christ – keep up). The…
Robert L Reymond’s John Calvin: His Life and Influence is a keeper. There I said it. This admission does not come with some hesitation. Why would you want this book? I think the answer lies with how desperate you are to know the story of JC (John Calvin not Jesus Christ – keep up). The…
…in his dying prayer Servetus cried: “O Jesus, son of eternal God, have pity on me.” Had he only prayed: “O Jesus, eternal son of God,” his prayer would have been orthodox. His punishment was due to his misplacing a single adjective, but “heresy is often a question of grammar” (Cottret). But clearly in the…
No, not Jesus Christ, but John Calvin. John turns a whopping 500 years old today. Bet he feels better than ever now. I can’t wait to put on my 500 year old body (hint: glorification). Poor Calvin posthumously lives with the dreaded pejorative “Calvinism,” which has become a by-word for reformed theology (of course, which…