Ford Lewis Battles

Ford Lewis Battles
Born30 January 1915
Erie, Pennsylvania, US
Died22 November 1979
Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
Occupation(s)Historian, theologian
Known forCalvin studies
SpouseMarion Davis (m. 1945)
ChildrenNancy Marion (b. 1946), Emily Stewart (b. 1951)

Ford Lewis Battles (30 Jan 1915 – 22 Nov 1979) was an American historian and theologian and one of the foremost scholars of John Calvin. He was an important contributor to the twentieth-century renaissance of Calvin studies, bequeathing his legacy in the masterly translation of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion (1960) published under the editorship of the Canadian-born scholar, Dr. John T. McNeill.[1]


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