John Calvin's name evokes powerful images, most of them negative. In many minds he is an ivory-tower theologian, harsh and unreasonable, the driving force behind a dangerous theological system.

In this volume Burk Parsons and eighteen other Reformed pastors and scholars set out the truth about Calvin and his teaching: that he was humble, caring, pious, Scripture-saturated and above all passionate about upholding the glory of God. Published for the five-hundredth anniversary of his birth, and a good first book on him for a reader who has only met the caricature.