John Calvin (1509–1564)

WYH2003HS Spring 2003-- January 28

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Many of Calvin's works, including Bible commentaries and the Institutes, are available in English translation from CCEL. (But the Library of Christian Classics translation of the Institutes is better.) There are French and Latin works of Calvin here, too.

In particular, here's the preface to his commentary on the Psalms where he talks a bit about himself. This personal self-disclosure is rare for Calvin, and this short piece is often quoted.

Here's a brief introduction to Calvin from Washington State University. Oddly, it interprets Calvin as a Zwinglian. And here's another introduction to Calvin by Victor Shepherd of Tyndale Seminary. And another by William Bouwsma in the Encyclopedia Britannica; Bouwsma is a principal biographer of Calvin,

From Michigan State University, a page of links to Calvin materials. Here's another source page from someone named Barry McWilliams, a Presbyterian grocery clerk near Seattle.

A classic 1909 introduction to Calvin's theology by the famous (or notorious) B.B. Warfield of Princeton Theological Seminary is still worth reading.

If you just want the section of Calvin's Institutes dealing with predestination, here it is.

John Calvin's biography and a summary of his theology can be found in the links to the left, as well as in our textbook.

Below is Calvin's birthplace in Noyon, Picardy, France.

Below is Geneva today.