Will Durant on Calvinism

Dr. Durant won the Pulitzer prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by US President Gerald Ford. Durant was a historian and philosopher.

Durant's book The Story of Philosophy is credited with introducing philosophy to more people than any other book ever written in the world.

His multi-thousand page, 11 volume historical work, The Story of Civilization, took 5 decades to write. 1

Below is a quote from Will Durant regarding John Calvin:

But we shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with the most absurd and blasphemous conception of God in all the long and honored history of nonsense. 2

• 1http://will-durant.com/bio.htm/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
• 2Durant, Will (1957) Chapter XXI, John Calvin. Volume VI The Reformation, The Story of Civilization. Simon & Schuster, NY, p. 490