As Gordon, a Winnipegger and professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale Divinity School, points out, predestination, for Calvin, was not about the doom of the 99, but the assurance it gave—in ...

It’s apparently the John Calvin of an austere theology, sometimes with an admirably broad scope—divine sovereignty, creation-fall-redemption—and sometimes with a much smaller but still important focus ...

When I was in graduate school, I wryly referred to myself as the most Reformed living human since John Calvin. To my surprise, this assertion did not win me friends or influence people. A cradle ...

As one of John Calvin’s biographers has put it, predestination became the “werewolf of Reformed theology”: an often dormant doctrine that periodically awoke with frightening ferocity.[1 ...