When Martin Luther nailed his famed 95 theses to ... Catholic sacraments—Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. French-born John Calvin founded the University of Geneva in 1559, and its students ...

Baptism has a marginal role in this picture. Yet baptism is central to the Christian life: commanded by Jesus, taught by the apostles, and honored, practiced, and contemplated from church fathers like ...

(Martin Luther) When an obscure monk ... away from Germany to Switzerland and Holland where Calvin and Knox founded societies based on Luther's principles. To England, where it would take a ...

Frederick the Wise is remembered as the man who saved Martin Luther from the fury of the Catholic ... together with his younger brother John, as sovereign of Ernestine Saxony.