Logos StaffWhy were John Calvin’s writings more popular than one of Martin Luther’s disciples, Martin Bucer? In this video excerpt from the Mobile Ed course Understanding the Protestant Reformation: Precursors and Legacy, Gerald L. Bray, author of Doing...
The below John Calvin quotes are taken from 300 Quotations for Preachers from the Reformation. Or delve into John Calvin’s most influential works with the Calvin 500 Collection (108 vols.). The collection contains three English translations of the...
Matthew BoffeyHere are five facts about the esteemed author and theologian John Calvin you may not know. 1. Calvin’s health suffered He was in constant pain: “headaches, insomnia, shortness of breath (probably due to advanced tuberculosis), coughing fits...
Guest AuthorVery little is known or recorded about John Calvin’s wife, Idelette de Bure. Yet, Thomas Smith records this of her in Calvin and His Enemies: A Memoir of the Life. Externally, there was in this woman nothing very attractive. She was encumbered...
It is always interesting to see how people respond to difficult circumstances. Here we have the opportunity to see how Calvin responds when not only told he’d been fired form his post in Geneva, but that he has 3 days to leave the town. The...
In his tract responding to the Adultero-Germin Interim, Calvin lays clear the relationship between the righteousness that come from faith and the righteousness that comes from works. I found meditating on this to be helpful in finding the balance...
John Calvin, in a dictated letter to the ministers of Geneva, shares some final words with them prior to his death. Among all that is recorded, we see the fragility of Calvin’s final state before his death, shared in his own words. It may be...
I came across John Calvin’s will the other day. It was fascinating (and encouraging) to see the degree that more than half of Calvin’s will is devoted to honoring God’s grace in the gospel. I was reminded of Philippians 1:20b...
I was reading Calvin in His Letters the other day. This truly fascinating book serves as a guide to the Letters of John Calvin. It was interesting to see such personal correspondences, like this one where Calvin is assisting a friend in the hunt for...
I recently posted a portion of a letter written to John Calvin by his cousin, Peter Robert Olivetan. Later in the letter we begin to see some of the gospel seeds making their way into the life of Calvin at the young age of 10. While it would be many...
I recently read William Blackburn’s College Days of Calvin and thoroughly enjoyed the book. Using history and some good story telling, Blackburn brings the early days of John Calvin to life in a vivid manner. I think, for me, the only problem...
People have a lot of opinions when it comes to worship in church services. There are those who enjoy lots of instruments and loud music, while others prefer choirs and organs. More than just style, people have preferences about whether to use hymns...
Reason #8: Calvin models for us how to bring all of life under the rubric of a biblical, comprehensive piety. Piety was the primary reason Calvin wrote his Institutes. For Calvin, piety is best defined as the development of a right attitude...
Reason #9: Calvin models for us how to faithfully pastor the sheep of God as under-shepherds of the Chief Shepherd. John Calvin was first and foremost a pastor. He faithfully pastored in Geneva for more than twenty-five years and in Strasbourg for...
One more reason why John Calvin is Important for today… Reason #10: Calvin models for us how to teach and practice evangelism and missions. One of the most fallacious charges against Calvin is that he did not fuel a passion for evangelism and...
One more reason why John Calvin is Important for today… Reason #11: Calvin models for us the wide-ranging impact of his theology on Western European and North American civilization, whether it be the rise of the Western democracies; the development...
One more reason why John Calvin is Important for today… Reason #12: Calvin models for us a proper recognition of the importance of education—especially seminary training, which is the backbone of the Christian enterprise. David Hall provides...
It can easily be said that the summary of the Christian Life is one that is in constant self-denial. To what exactly it takes for one to be consistent in this may be at hard times to see. Understanding that the christian is not of his own, but only...
So why is Calvin important today? Why do we celebrate his legacy? What did he teach and do that merits perpetual remembrance in the church of Jesus Christ? Calvin the historian, who unfolded redemptive history for us Calvin the polemicist, who...
Last night I was looking through my Logos library, searching for something to read before bed. William Blackburn’s book, College Days of Calvin, caught my eye. While I wasn’t able to find out much about Blackburn online, the little I did...
Kent HendricksJohn Calvin is one of the church’s greatest theologians, and Calvinism one of the Western world’s most influential intellectual movements. Calvin was a theologian, pastor, biblical exegete, and tireless apologist for Reformed Christianity. His...
Terry DelaneyCarr, Simonetta. John Calvin. Illustrated by Emanuele Taglietti. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2008. 64 pp. $18.00. With 2009 being the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth, Reformation Heritage Books has published a wonderful...
Steven WedgeworthWhat is Calvinism? Any attempt to give just one answer is sure to be wrong. Calvinism is not a church or a denomination. Calvinism is not even (just) a system of doctrine. Instead, Calvinism is a broad religious tradition with certain shared views...
Mark WardIn my previous article in this two-part series, I offered my thoughts on John Piper’s recent off-hand comments about Logos and BDAG. While very appreciative of Piper’s love for Logos, I argued that BDAG may be more useful to more people than his...
You know about Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli. You may even know about Thomas Cranmer and John Knox. . . . But what do you know about the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation? Learn how one pre-Reformer set the stage for Martin...
What can you do with a big Logos Bible app library? You can run a referendum. You can quickly sample the opinions—and gather the insight—of Bible study experts. I regularly come across something in the Bible text that puzzles me. Today it’s a little...
"There is a sense in which we can say that men like Gerstner, and Edwards before him, 'lost' their battles with Culture."
The much-anticipated documentary from Les Lanphere finally dropped this September. Calvinist gathered buzz before filming even began. Three days after launching his Kickstarter for the project, Lanphere met his goal. By the time it ended, he had...
Jesse MyersJohn Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion is among the most important works of theology in church history. It’s a central text for Protestantism, especially the Reformed tradition, and continues to be read and referenced widely today, just...
The life of prayer for the child of God is worked by the Holy Spirit. JohnCalvin argues that it is through Christ and his work that the believer can now enter boldly before God and pray because the veil has been torn away between sinners and God...