The rise of the Reformed tradition in France—and its most famous son

Calvin’s influential thoughts on predestination and the Lord’s Supper

How Reformed Christians spread across a continent

How Menno Simons and Pilgram Marpeck guided Anabaptists through troubled times

Calvin the teacher, Menno the preacher, Elizabeth the queen, and those unpronounceable French Protestants

Readers respond to Christian History

Setting out to renew the church, the reformers divided and subdivided it

What was Calvin like as a pastor?

From farce to tragedy: Calvin finds and loses a wife

Religious refugees chose faith over geography

Man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has contemplated the face of God

Christian History's Reformation timeline

How a dynamic reform movement became a territorial church

Excerpts from the Book of Concord and the Heidelberg Confession

The Reformation in England and Scotland took two very different paths

The men who promoted and disputed reform in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain

Where can you go to learn more about Calvin, the Reformed faith, and the development of the Reformation? Here are some recommendations from CH editorial staff and this issue’s authors