"As the American Calvins are not descended from a single immigrant ancestor, but from several different early immigrants, the descendants of each immigrant ancestor are considered in the following genealogy as a separate Calvin family line.

This book attempts to understand Calvin in his 16th-century context, with attention to continuities and discontinuities between his thought and that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.

John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion has been one of the most important works in Christian theology for nearly five hundred years.

In this third book in The Institutes of Religion, John Calvin teaches about the grace of Christ and show the reader how to obtain His grace.

In her brilliant preface to this edition, Pulitzer Prize—winning novelist Marilynne Robinson makes the clearest connection between John Calvin’s own biblical and patristic heritage and the heritage he in turn left the modern world.

Extracts from Calvin's commentaries topically arranged.

This English edition of the epistolary writings of Calvin, complete in four volumes, contains six hundred sixty-eight letters, last discourses, and an appendix of eighteen additional letters.

Calvin Smith was born in 1813 in Erie County, New York. The first chapter in his autobiography pertains to his ancestors.

John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation, and a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.