Michael Servetus: Saint, Heretic and Martyr (Part 5: A Defense of John Calvin and the Calvinists) (October 17, 2018)

In defense of Calvinists: A memorial to Michael Servetus John Calvin has wayward sons who still defend the execution of Servetus and Calvin's participation in it, however most Calvinists today admit that Calvin erred in the Servetus affair, and some Calvinists today are willing to admit that Calvin sinned and that […]

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John Calvin on the Roman Catholic Objections to the Reformation (February 1, 2013)

John Eck's Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutheranos (1526, 1536) John Calvin lists what he believes to be the basic objections the Roman Catholic Church held against the Reformation in the 16th Century. "They call it "new" and "of recent birth."  "They reproach it as "doubtful and uncertain" "They inquire whether it is right for […]

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John T. McNeill, On John Calvin’s View of Scripture (January 18, 2013)

John Calvin Did John Calvin hold to a doctrine of the Scriptures that is rejected by the Reformed Confessions? And would Calvin's understanding of Scripture be accepted as acceptable by most Evangelical Churches in America today? It seems that according to John T. McNeill's Introduction to his edition of the "Institutes […]

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