Comments on: Top 5 Christian Theologians: John Calvin

By: Ayuba

Ayuba — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:19:55 +0000

From Calvin we can learn that christian love must be tamper with other ethical values. We cannot love at all cost.

By: William Dicks

William Dicks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:09 +0000

Hi Daniel,

I think your view of the Calvin and Servetus saga is lacking a bit. For a bit about this go to http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=3452.

By: barefootmeg

barefootmeg — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:57:16 +0000

i haven’t read the institutes even a little bit, so i probably have no clue what i’m talking about, but it seems to me that a lot of the ways protestants think today are founded in paradigms that calvin initiated or paradigms that were initiated in others as they came into contact with calvin.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:24:34 +0000

Yes, so Calvin was a great thinker. he also had Michael Servetus killed (burned alive although Calvin would have preferred he be beheaded) because Servetus did not believe the same way as Calvin. How can someone like that be one of the top 5 Christian theologians? Calvin misses the whole section on love in the Bible egh?

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:21:34 +0000

Trevin,

I know everybody loves him and you can’t really leave him off any short-list. But I disciplined myself to read through the entire Institutes a couple of years ago and got absolutely nothing out of it. As a historical influence he should perhaps be honored, and I think that is your criteria for this list. But, to me at least, he is not useful/helpful today. In that vein, I’d like to see a list of the most useful/helpful theologians for the 21st century. They don’t have to be “from” today, just “for” today.

Thanks,
Alex