Christian History

Issue 12

John Bunyan & Pilgrim's Progress

Originally published in 1986

Christian History magazine was published by Christianity Today from 1982 to 2008.

Articles in this Issue

The Life and Times of John Calvin

T. H. L. Parker

As Shakespeare wrote, “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” John Calvin was certainly not born great.

Pastor of Geneva

Olivier Fatio

Idelette: John Calvin’s Search for the Right Wife

William J. Petersen

You don’t look to the life of John Calvin for humor, but Calvin’s quest for a wife would make grist for a twentieth-century situation comedy.

The Principle Practice of Faith

Raymond K. Anderson

How Prayer Was Calvin’s Key to Living Well.

It Was Both A Horrible Decree and Very Sweet Fruit

Frank A. James III

Calvin on Predestination

From the Archives: Selections from Confessions of Faith

Selections From Confession of Faith which all the citizens and inhabitants of Geneva and the subjects of the country must promise to keep and hold. (1536)

All Archives

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