He’s 500 years old today, but he’s still hot. Especially for a brand of youthful US-based evangelicals. The 16th-century reformer John Calvin, perhaps unjustly famed for dourness and an elitist doctrine of pre-destination, is enjoying a huge revival in the Protestant world.
Time magazine put The New Calvinism at No 3, in its 2009 list of the Top Ten ideas Changing the World, calling it “ Evangelicalism's latest success story”.
Time points out that "the Calvinist-flavoured ESV Bible" sold out at first printing, and exalting the reformed blog Between Two Worlds as among "cyber-Christendom's hottest links."...
