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The Reformation, Geneva, TULIP, covenant of grace, predestination, the Institutes of the Christian Religion; this was John Calvin. Nearly five hundred years later, we celebrate the work of John Calvin, the foundations of our Reformed faith that were set, and the truths and correct understanding of t
The truths of the Reformation were only now being discovered, developed, and understood. John Calvin knew and understood those truths perhaps better than any other man at that time. Through even more controversy and trouble, the church of Geneva came to see what they had lost. Oh, if only John Calvi
They labored for the same end: the renovation of the Catholic Church by leading it back to the pure and perennial fountain of the perfect teaching and example of Christ.” Calvin produced the system, so completely Scriptural, which has become known as the Reformed faith. And at the basis of his syst
Indeed, John Calvin was a great reformer, a great theologian, author, and preacher. John Calvin was not all of this of his own strength; it was by God’s grace that he was all of this in order that he could serve the purpose of God. He was a man of the sixteenth century whom God used to preserve the
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal Vol. 43, No. 2 34 to escape the harsh severity of Rome, and therefore went over to the Reformation, hoping to be freed from any supervision of the church. These Antinomians gave the Reformation a bad name. Calvin restored proper church discipline and preached
This Reformed tradition began with the Calvin Reformation. It continued through the Reformation in the Netherlands. It came over the sea to this country with our forbearers. It was preserved in this country through the history of the Christian Reformed Church and our own Churches since 1924 up to th
The year 2009 is the five hundredth anniversary of a most significant event, namely, the birth of one of the greatest men that God ever raised up to serve His church. John Calvin was born July 10, 1509 in Noyon, a city located in the northern region of Picardy, France. This anniversary must be prope
The Reformed faith is a grand system of doctrines which fit together into one unified whole. Take, for example, the five points of Calvinism—total depravity, unconditional election, limited (particular) atonement, irresistible (efficacious) grace, and the perseverance of the saints. All of these doc
even unto death! Calvin ends on this very note: But be the issue what it may. we will never repent of having be- gun, and of having procecded thus far. The Holy Spirit is a faithful and uncrring witness to our doctrine. We know, I say, that it is the ctcrnal truth of God that we preach. Wc arc. in