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Your Image Of Calvin Is Probably Wrong

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  • R. Scott Clark
on July 19, 2021 | 14 Comments

The enduring image of Calvin as an unyielding, moralistic and stone-faced tyrant who rejected all the pleasures of life has been his opponents’ greatest victory. The iconography of the Frenchman has hardly helped matters, above all, the Reformation monument in Geneva, which . . . Continue reading →

Jerome Bolsec (1): The Primary Source Of Most Of Calvin’s Bad Press

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  • Heidelblog
on March 17, 2022

The facts of the controversy are rather simple. Jerome Bolsec who was a Carmelite monk and doctor of theology in Paris, was drawn to the Reformation and so forced to leave France. By early 1551 he had settled in the canton of . . . Continue reading →

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