" ... conferences were sponsored during 2009 ... the papers that were presented in Calvin's own quarters July 6-9, 2009 ... the chapters comprising this book were presented at (or written by presenters of) Calvin 500 at the Auditoire in Geneva's Old Town" --Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Foreword / Albert Mohler -- Preface / David W. Hall -- Calvin's times -- Calvin's children / William McComish -- Calvin and ecclesiastical discipline / Robert M. Kingdon -- Calvin the lawyer / John Witte, Jr. -- Calvin the frenchman / Henri A.G. Blocher -- Calvin and women: between irritation and admiration / Isabelle Graessl -- Preaching as worship in the pulpit of John Calvin / Hughes Old -- Calvin the liturgist / Terry L. Johnson -- Calvin's New Testament commentaries and his work as an exegete / George W. Knight III -- Calvin and Luther: comrades in Christ / James Edward McGoldrick -- Calvin's topics -- The Catholicity of Calvin's theology / Douglas F. Kelly -- John Calvin on sacred and secular history / Richard Burnett -- Calvin's principle of worship / R. Scott Clark -- Calvin's doctrine of assurance revisited / Anthony N.S. Lane -- Calvin's principles of goverance: homology in church and state / David W. Hall -- Prayer in Calvin's soteriology / Jae Sung Kim -- John Calvin's doctrine of scripture / A.T.B. McGowan -- Calvin's eucharistic ecclesiology / Michael Horton -- Calvin today and tomorrow -- Calvin bibliography / Richard C. Gamble -- Consistently contested: Calvin among nineteenth-century Reformed Protestants in the United States / Darryl G. Hart -- Calvin's impact on the arts / William Edgar -- Calvinism in Asia / Jae Sung Kim -- Union with Christ in Calvin's theology: grounds for a divinisation theory / Bruce L. McCormack -- See you in heaven: Calvin's view of life, death, and eternal life / Herman J. Selderhuis.