Why John Calvin did not Recognize the Distinction Between Mortal ...
John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the ...
Calvin's Catholic Critics (Chapter 40) - John Calvin in Context
Was it not strange, Adam asked the Calvinists, that they taught that Holy Scripture was as clear as the rays of the sun to all souls that have the faith, while ...
The Two Kingdoms - Calvin University
have often claimed John Calvin as one of their own. ... In another move that differentiates him from con- temporary transformationists, Calvin does not permit the ...
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Two distinctions hence arising. Objection, that God is often angry with his elect. Answer, God in afflicting his people does not take his mercy from them. This ...
John Calvin - Classic Theology
I don't know many people that had their souls saved by formal, lofty processes. A lot of people join the church, but I haven't met any that were converted ...
Martin Luther and John Calvin | Christian Library
Unlike Luther, Calvin advocated the separation of church and state. He did not recognize any right of the state to interfere with the affairs of the church.
Aquinas and Calvin on Predestination: Is There Any Common ...
The ground of predestination does not depend on merit resulting from its effect. God does not confer grace on individuals he knows will use it well. Even these ...
Calvin on God's Sovereignty - Christian History Institute
This is what led him to put such emphasis on the doctrine of predestination — the idea that God, not we, decides whether we will be saved. This point of view ...
The Weakness of Man and the Permanence of the Word: The Life of ...
Obviously, I am on the admiring side of things, but to claim John Calvin as a hero, or as a formative influence, does not mean we have to be ...
John Calvin's view of Limited Atonement – by Dr. Roger Nicole
One of the earliest writers to claim that Calvin espoused universal atonement was Moyse Amyraut (1596–1664) who in his Eschantillon de la doctrine de Calvin ...
John Calvin and the Reward of Grace - Standard Bearer
Thirdly, Calvin taught that the reward is a reward of grace because when God receives good works, He does not do so for the sake of the intrinsic worth of those ...
John Calvin - Knowing Jesus Ministries
Calvin has a terrible reputation in the eyes of many Christians, most of which know nothing about him and have read nothing from him. His name, ...
But the essential goodness of the body was also affirmed in the credal doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh. The Christian theologian closest to Plato was ...
Lessons from the Life of John Calvin - Faith Presbyterian Church
And it was apparently Luther who made a great difference. We don't know precisely how. Calvin spoke very little about his own conversion, but in ...
In seeking to explain how Calvin could have failed to make much of what is allegedly the most important feature of biblical eschatology, the radical distinction ...
This is what Luther is saying on Galatians 5, “Mortal sin and venial sin are distinguished from each other not on the basis of the substance of ...
What is the Sin that Leads to Death? - AlbertMohler.com
Well, I was beginning to catch on a little bit here, and so I said, “So in your distinction between mortal and venial sins, you don't know what ...
10 Things You Should Know about the Theology of John Calvin
Calvin argued that God has implanted a seed of religion or an “awareness of divinity” in everyone. Thus there is “no nation so barbarous, no ...
Antidote to the Council of Trent on the Doctrine of Justification by R ...
Nay, their definition at length contains nothing else than the trite dogma of the schools: that men are justified partly by the grace of God and partly by their ...
Not Every Thing is as Important as the Next Thing: John Calvin on ...
We should think more carefully about how close to the core of the faith certain theological issues land. If they land at the top, are “necessary ...