Was Calvin a Calvinist?

Dr. Richard Muller of Calvin Theological Seminary

Answering the perennial question, "Was Calvin a Calvinist?," is a rather complicated matter, given that the question itself is grounded in a series of modern misconceptions concerning the relationship of the Reformation to post-Reformation orthodoxy. The lecture examines issues lurking behind the question and works through some ways of understanding the continuities, discontinuities, and developments that took place in Reformed thought on such topics as the divine decrees, predestination, and so-called limited atonement, with specific attention to the place of Calvin in the Reformed tradition of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Read the text of the lecture here (pdf)