John Calvin: Father of Calvinism (1)

Introduction When Karl Barth was preparing a series of lectures on John Calvin, he wrote to a friend: Calvin is a cataract…I lack completely the means, the suction cups, even to assimilate this phenomenon, not to speak of presenting it adequately. What I receive is only a thin little stream and what I can then give out again is only a yet thinner extract of this little stream. I could gladly and profitably set myself down and spend all the rest of my life just with Calvin. No one can...