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Scholars have debated Calvin's view of the Jews and Judaism. Some have argued that Calvin was the least antisemitic among all the major reformers of his time, especially in comparison to Martin Luther. [110] Others have argued that Calvin was firmly within the antisemitic camp. [111]
The history of the Calvinist–Arminian debate begins in the early 17th century in the Netherlands with a Christian theological dispute between the followers of John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius and continues today among some Protestants, particularly evangelicals.
Kendall interpreted Calvin as believing that Christ died for all people, but intercedes only for the elect. Kendall's thesis is now a minority view as a result of work by scholars such as Paul Helm , who argues that "both Calvin and the Puritans taught that Christ died for the elect and intercedes for the elect", [ 14 ] Richard Muller, [ 15 ...
Young Calvin Finch sits on a swing perched atop a steep seaside cliff while the afternoon sun warms the waves, grass and trees. Calvin's left leg is in a cast, but he easily swings his feet back ...
Against Calvin's Booklet, in its full form Against Calvin's Booklet in which he attempts to show that heretics must be suppressed by the right of the sword (in Latin: Contra libellum Calvini in quo ostendere conatur haereticos jure gladii coercendos esse), is a theological treatise in the form of a dialogue written by Sebastian Castellio in June 1554 and published posthumously in 1612.
At least 14 people were killed during a deadly attack on New Year's Day when a driver slammed into a crowd celebrating New Year's on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, in what is being investigated as ...
At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured Wednesday when a vehicle plowed overnight into a New Year's crowd in the heart of the thriving New Orleans tourist district, authorities in the ...
Sixteenth-century portrait of John Calvin by an unknown artist. From the collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (Library of Geneva). John Calvin is the most well-known Reformed theologian of the generation following Zwingli's death, but recent scholarship has argued that several previously overlooked individuals had at least as much influence on the development of Reformed Christianity and ...