What are the status and prospects of Calvinism in the United States 400 years after the definitive edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion? They are not good. In fact, they are very bad.

Law and liberty. Church and state. These are the things held in a constant balancing act in John Calvin’s Geneva, said John Witte, Jr. in his lecture that opened the 22nd -annual January Series this ...

I knew that many crosses would come my way if I ran to Mother Church, but I could not resist Her love. “The Communion of Saints” from the Padua Baptistry (photo: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA ...

“A priest who wants to break with the Roman Catholic Church is helpless,” says the Rev. Herman Johannes Hegger, 46, a minister in the Calvinist Church of The Netherlands. “He needs somebody, just for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

divide as "a tremendous challenge for us." Read our latest issue or browse back issues. A former South Carolina pastor, Page wrote an 80-page booklet in 2000 titled Trouble with the TULIP: A Closer ...

Some classic works on the origins of modernity gave pride of place to Calvinism. Max Weber famously made it the fount of capitalist economics; Robert K. Merton, that of experimental science; Michael ...

— Author Peter Kreeft packed the house at Newman’s Bookshoppe on a recent Friday night, offering his views on interfaith harmony in a lively talk. The Jan. 29 lecture by the Protestant-turned-Catholic ...

It is possible to enter a certain London square, approach a particular door, ring its bell and, then, proceed to walk though that doorway straight into France. In a quiet corner of London, there is a ...

Just say the word - Calvinism - and you will draw frowns. When John L. Thompson's daughter brought home her civics textbook a few years ago, he noticed there was a short section on John Calvin, the ...