Saturday, March 10, 2007

Life of John Calvin

One kind reader recently requested that I provide a biography of John Calvin. This is something that I'd rather leave to other people. Here are some links to excellent brief biographies of Calvin.

Some interesting contextualization of Calvin here:
http://www.lgmarshall.org/Daubigne/daubigne_refhistory12_15.html

Here's a fairly good, quick, biography:
http://www.apuritansmind.com/Reformation/McMahonLifeOfCalvin.htm

And here is a slightly more lengthy one:
http://www.gtc.ac.nz/publications/John%20Calvin.pdf

However, the bottom line is that I, for one, am not persuaded to agree with Calvin on the many points where I agree with him, because he said it, nor because he lived a virtuous life of devotion to the truth. I agree with him because study of Scripture confirms that his doctrines - at least most of them - have them as their source. For the same reason, I have no plans to write a biography of Turretin.

May the Holy Spirit, who provided us with Scripture, be praised!

-Turretinfan

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dennison wrote "The Life and Career of Francis Turretin" which is placed at the end of Vol. 3 of The Institutes of Elenctic Theology (P&R Publishing).

Turretinfan said...

Thanks for the tip!

-TurretinFan