John Calvin & Calvinism

Advert: Discount voucher for Perlego applied at checkout

Theology on the Web helps over 2.5 million people every year to find high quality theological resources that will help to equip them to serve God and to know Him better (2 Timothy 2:15). Like other websites that provide free services, it is dependent on donations to enable it to grow and develop and only 0.004% of visitors currently do so. If you would like to support this site, please use one of the options to the right of this message.

Primary Works

Ford Lewis Battles, translator & editor, The Piety of John Calvin. A Collection of His Spiritual Prose, Poems, and Hymns. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2009. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]

Secondary Works

	Matthieu Arnold, ed., John Calvin. The Strasbourg Years (1538-1541). Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016. ISBN: 978-1498239639. pp.264. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	James Atkinson, The Great Light. Luther and Reformation. The Paternoster Church History, Vol. IV. Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1968. PHbk. ISBN: 085364084X. pp.287. pdf [All reasonable efforts have been made to contact the copyright holder of this article without success. If you hold the rights, please contact me]
	E. Doumergue, "What Ought to be Known about Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 1.1 (1929): 60-82.
	Rev. Granville Abbott, "Calvin and Calvinism," Bibliotheca Sacra 30 No. 119 (1873): 401-421. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Chris Accardy, "Calvin's Ministry To The Waldensians," Reformation & Revival 10.4 (Fall 2001): 45-58. pdf
	Joel R. Beeke, "John Calvin: Teacher And Practitioner Of Evangelism," Reformation & Revival 10.4 (Fall 2001): 107-130. pdf
	D. Boyd, "Calvin's Preface to the French Metrical Psalms," The Evangelical Quarterly 22.4 (1950): 249-254.
	Rev. Wolcott Calkins, "John Calvin's Calvinism," Bibliotheca Sacra 66 No. 264 (1909): 671-684. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	Julie Canlis, "Calvin's Institutes: Primer for Spiritual Formation," Crux 47.1 (2011): 16-29. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Alan C. Clifford, "John Calvin and the Confessio Fidei Gallicana," The Evangelical Quarterly 58.3 (July-Sept. 1986): 195-206. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Emile Doumergue [1844-1937], "What Ought to be Known about Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 1.1 (1929): 60-82. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	John Henry Dyer [1804-1888], The Life of John Calvin, compiled from Authentic Sources, and Particularly from His Correspondence. London: John Murray, 1850. Hbk. pp.560. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	George Boardman Eager, “Calvin as a Civic and Social Influence,” Review & Expositor 6.4 (Oct. 1909): 550-561.
	Christopher Elwood, A Brief Introduction to John Calvin. Louisville, NJ: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1611647860. pp.150. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Allan L. Farris, "Calvin's Letter to Luther," Canadian Journal of Theology 10.2 (April 1964): 124-131.
	What is the Value of John Calvin for Today? - Lee Gatiss
	W. Robert Godfrey, John Calvin. Pilgrim and Pastor. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2009. ISBN: 9781433521508. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Peter F. Jensen, "Calvin, Charismatics and Miracles," The Evangelical Quarterly 51.3 (Jul.-Sept. 1979): 131-144. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	J.L.M. Haire, “John Calvin as an Expositor,” Irish Biblical Studies 4.1 (1982): 2-16.
	G.H. Hospers [1864-1949], "Estimates of John Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 6.2 (April 1934): 188-210. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	A.M. Hunter, "The Education of Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 9.1 (Jan. 1937): 20-33.
	A.M. Hunter, "The Erudition of Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 18.3 (July 1946): 199-208.
	Marcus Johnson, “New or Nuanced Perspective on Calvin? A Reply to Thomas Wenger,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 51.3 (Sept. 2008): 543-558. pdf
	A.N.S. Lane, "Guide to Recent Calvin Literature," Vox Evangelica 17 (1987): 35-47. pdf
	Tony Lane, "The Quest for the Historical Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 55.2 (April 1983): 95-113. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	A. Lang, "The Sources of Calvin's Institutes of 1536," The Evangelical Quarterly 8.2 (April 1936): 130-141.
	A. Lang, "Three New Biographies of Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 9.3 (July 1937): 256-270.
	Thomas Lawson, Calvin: His Life and Times, 4th edn. London: F. Kirby / Brighton / A.M. Robinson, n.d. pp.157.
	Charles Greig McCrie [1836-1910], "Beza's Icones". Cotemporary Protraits of Reformers of Relgions and Letters. London: Religious Tract Society, 1909. Hbk. pp.249. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	James Edward McGoldrick, "Introducing John Calvin: The Reformer's Preparation," Reformation & Revival 10.4 (Fall 2001): 15-33. pdf
	Donald K. McKim, John Calvin. A Companion to His Life and Theology. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2015. ISBN: 9781498273589. pp.178. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	James MacKinnon [1860-1945], Calvin and the Reformation. London & New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1936. Hbk. pp.302. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
	H.R. Mackintosh, “John Calvin: Expositor and Dogmatist,” Review & Expositor 7.2 (April 1910): 179-194.
	Michael Mullett, John Calvin. London: Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 9781134882724. pp.312. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	A.H. Newman, “The Calvinism of Calvin,” Review & Expositor 6.4 (Oct. 1909): 562-576.
	Mark A. Noll, "John Calvin, the Duke of Somerset, and the King of England," Westminster Theological Journal 37.1 (Fall 1974): 1-23.
	T.H.L. Parker, "The Approach to Calvin," The Evangelical Quarterly 16.3 (July 1944): 165-172. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	T.H.L. Parker, "A Bibliography and Survey of the British Study of Calvin, 1900-1940," The Evangelical Quarterly 18.2 (April 1946): 123-131. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	T.H.L. Parker, Supplementa Calviniana. An Account of the Manuscripts of Calvin's Sermons Now in Course of Preparation. London: The Tyndale Press, 1962. Pbk. pp.23. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	Yudha Thianto, An Explorer's Guide to John Calvin. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2022. pp.235. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Derek Thomas & John W. Tweeddale, John Calvin. For a New Reformation. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2019. ISBN: 978-1433523991. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Stephen Thorson, "Tensions in Calvin's View of Faith: Unexamined Assumptions In R. T. Kendall's Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 37.4 (Dec. 1994): 413-426. pdf
	John R. Walchenbach, John Calvin as Biblical Commentator. An Investigation into Calvin's Use of John Chrysostom as an Exegetical Tutor. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010. ISBN: 978-1498275125. pp.218. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Thomas L. Wenger, “Theological Spectacles and a Paradigm of Centrality: A Reply to Marcus Johnson,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 51.3 (Sept. 2008): 559-572. pdf
	Randall C. Zachman, John Calvin as Teacher, Pastor, and Theologian. The Shape of His Writings and Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006. ISBN: 978-1441241924. [Sign-up to Perlego and access book instantly - 10% discount for new subscriptions]
	Samuel M. Zwemer [1867-1952], "Calvin and Islam," The Evangelical Quarterly 10.4 (Oct. 1938): 374-379. pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]

Biographies

	W.J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait. Oxford, 1988.
	B. Cottret, Calvin: A Biography. Grand Rapids & Edinburgh, 2000.
	B. Hall, John Calvin. London, 1956.
	Alister E. McGrath, A Life of John Calvin. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Pbk. ISBN: 0631189475. pp.332.
	J. MacKinnon, Calvin and the Reformation. New York, 1962.
	T.H.L. Parker, John Calvin. London, 1975.
	W. Stanford Reid, "Calvin's Interpretation of the Reformation," The Evangelical Quarterly 29.1 (1957): 4-22. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	W. Stanford Reid, "The Genevan Revolutionary [Calvin]," The Evangelical Quarterly 32.2 (1960): 66-78. pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]
	R. Stauffer, "Calvin," M. Prestwich, ed., International Calvinism 1541-1715. Oxford, 1985. pp.15-38.
	R.S. Wallace, Calvin, Geneva and the Reformation. Edinburgh, 1988.
	François Wendel, Calvin: The Origins and Development of His Religious Thought. London, 1963. Pbk. ISBN: 0006410545. pp.383.
	William Wileman [1849-1941], John Calvin: His Life, His Teaching and His Influence. London: Robert Banks & Son, n.d. Hbk. pp.147.
	Shawn D. Wright, "John Calvin as Pastor," Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 13.4 (Winter 2009): 4-17.