Calvin at 500
A reformer's legacy
Sep 22, 2009
by John M. Buchanan
You may find members of Presbyterian and Reformed churches more theologically engaged than usual these days. This year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth. I decided to observe the occasion by focusing my reading this summer on Calvin. I skimmed T. H. L. Parker’s classic biography, which I had read years before. I read Bruce Gordon’s new and exceptional biography, Calvin; William Stacy Johnson’s John Calvin: Reformer for the 21st Century; the commemorative issue of Theology Today; and a surprisingly lucid Calvin for Armchair Theologians, by Christopher Elwood.
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