27 articles from 25 issues, 1995 to 2026 · Page 3 of 3
Calvin’s years in Geneva are often told as a struggle that ended in triumph. David Wright reads his letters and lectures to show a pastor who stayed through exile, illness and opposition, and asks what his example teaches a divided church.
Why does the church need discipline at all? In this excerpt from the Institutes, John Calvin calls discipline the sinews of the body, and sets out its stages and its three purposes under the rule of gentleness.
Who judges whom when the church reads the Bible? The editors set feminist claims that Scripture holds authority only where it affirms women’s experience beside the Westminster Confession and Calvin’s Institutes, which ground its authority in God alone.
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