This lecture was originally presented at Derry Presbyterian Church on Sunday, September 7. When the recording failed, Dr. Lee Barrett graciously agreed to re-record his program for our "Year of John Calvin."
Lee C. Barrett, III is the Mary B. and Henry P. Stager Chair in Theology and Professor of Systematic Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
John Calvin was the most influential character in the origin of the Reformed theological tradition that informs the Presbyterian heritage. In a way, he is Presbyterianism's primary parent. As with any parent, his children have remembered him with a complicated mixture of adoration and aversion, praising him for all the virtues of the heritage and blaming him for all its faults. His piety and personality lives on in the way Presbyterians think, worship, pray, engage in mission, and conduct church life. This lecture sets the stage for an investigation of the life, thought, and legacy of this monumental figure who bequeathed his deepest yearnings, anxieties, hopes, and fears to his spiritual descendants.
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