Should the church be allowed to dictate how you should think on spiritual matters? In Luther's day those who thought not protested that the authority of the Bible and the freedom of conscience should be above the tradition of the church.
Calvin was an acclaimed a defender of Christianity, but he had opposition along the way, some undeserved, some self-inflicted.
Calvin was an acclaimed a defender of Christianity, but he had opposition along the way, some undeserved, some self-inflicted.
In the aftermath of the debacle of the placards, Calvin fled France and traveled to Strasbourg and then on to Basel in 1536 where he began to write “The Institutes of the Christian Religion”, a systematic presentation of the Protestant message and Calvin’s most significant contribution to Protest...