Understanding the Covenant

In the early days of my graduate school training at the University of Michigan, I had a research mentor who found out I was a Calvinist. As a Catholic, he was amused to tell me that he had once sat in John Calvin’s chair in Geneva during his training in Switzerland. His comment to me was something along the lines of how stiff and uncomfortable the chair was, which to his mind fit quite well with the version of Christian faith that Calvin taught. He said it in jest, but his point was clear. To...