Centuries-old distortions of Calvin linger today
July 4th, 2009
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Friday is John Calvin’s 500th birthday, and believers aren’t sure whether to light the candles or keep them blown out. Calvin and Calvinism stir ambivalent feelings even now. His ideas about God and faith were crucial to shaping global Protestantism and the American character. This momentous writer, lawyer and church reformer (born in France in 1509, later shaking up the Western world with his ideas), inspired Puritan settlements in New…