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"The Theologian" was the affectionate and admiring phrase by which Philip Melanchthon, Professor of Greek at Wittenberg University and leader of the German reformation after Luther's death, regularly referred to his twelve-years-younger contemporary, the senior pastor in the Swiss city of Geneva -- John Calvin.   Cited by J. I. Packer in "Calvin the Theologian," in Courtenay Studies in Reformation Theology I: John Calvin Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1966. p.149.
 
Melanchthon's son-in-law, Christoph Pezel, reports that Luther picked up Calvin's Little Treatise on the Holy Supper of Our Lord in a book shop and praised it highly saying:  "I might have entrusted the whole affair of this controversy to him [Calvin] from the beginning.  If my opponents had done the like, we should soon have been reconciled." Cited in McNeill, History and Character of Calvinism, p. 153.

The Little Council of Geneva shortly after Calvin's death paid him the following tribute: "God gave him a character of great majesty."

Sir Edwin Sandys, a man who dreamed a dream of human freedom in a tyrannical age, so admired the Swiss Republic and the city of Geneva that he said in 1623, "If ever God did constitute a form of government it was that of Geneva." Cited by McNeill, ibid, p.334.
 

C. H. Spurgeon once said, "The longer I live the clearer does it appear that John Calvin's system is the nearest to perfection." cited in Christian History magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4.


"Geneva is the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in this earth since the days of the apostles.  In other places I confess Christ to be truly preached; but manners and religion to be so sincerely reformed, I have not seen in any other place."                                        John Knox   1513-72

Speakers

Dr. Carl R. Trueman

Dr. Sean Michael Lucas

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Schedule
Friday, April 17th, 2009
2:30 PM Registration Opens
3:30 PM  Opening Sessions:  Dr. Lucas: Grace-Centered Leadership
5:00 PM Diner at Local Restaurants  (Registrar will have a recommended list)
6:30 PM Registration Opens
7:30 PM Opening Sessions: 
Dr. Trueman: Calvin as Reformer
 Dr. Lucas: Calvin’s Rhetoric of Piety
   
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Morning Sessions:  Dr. Trueman: Calvin as Theologian
Dr. Lucas: Calvin’s Doctrine of Creation
11:30 PM Lunch at local restaurants
1:00 PM Afternoon Sessions: 
Q&A Session
Dr. Lucas: Calvin on the Means of Grace
Dr. Trueman: Calvin and Calvinism.