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Calvin vs Servetus: a twenty year fight to the death
Michael Servetus (1511-1553) came in conflict with John Calvin (1509-1564) in the early 1530's and their correspondences spanned twenty years. "A strange mixture of fascination and repulsion haunted the relations between these two men. Many long years passed before the battle […]
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In Part 1: Burned Alive at the Stake of this Michael Servetus: Saint, Heretic, and Martyr series, I described the horrific execution of Michael Servetus. In Part 2, I will explain that John Calvin is guilty for the death of Michael Servetus, but this guilt is shared by the Geneva […]
Ernst Käsemann argues that the New Testament scriptures have been subject to biblical criticism from their very beginning, and even the New Testament writers criticize each other, disagree with each other and contradict each other. In Käsemann's essay "Is the Gospel Objective?" in his Essays on New Testament Themes, he argues […]
John Calvin on Nicolaus Copernicus and Heliocentrism (May 21, 2014)
Geocentric Model of the 16th Century
John Calvin's reputation has suffered tremulously due to the following quotation that was wrongly attributed to him by famous men such as Bertrand Russell, Thomas Kuhn and many others, which Calvin had never uttered:
"Who,' asks Calvin, 'will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that […]
Calvin: A Biography by Bruce Gordon (review) (April 6, 2010)
Prof. F. Bruce Gordon's "Calvin" (amazon) is a new biography of John Calvin released in 2009, which coincides to John Calvin's 500th birthday. I learned about the biography from the 2009 Desiring God National Conference: With Calvin in the Theater of G...