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Thursday, February 09, 2012, 11 p.m.

John Calvin, we hardly knew ye

By BY WILLIAM McKENZIE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

If you think Dick Cheney has suffered from bad PR, man, think about John Calvin’s image. The father of Calvinism had a heretic burned at the stake in 1553, and it’s been downhill ever since. The burning is what many people remember about the Protestant reformer. Modern drawings of a dour-looking Calvin make Ebenezer Scrooge look like a fun guy.

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  • Headline: John Calvin, we hardly knew ye
  • Publication: Editorial, Pages 12 on 11/03/2009
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