In this article, John Bailey Adger examines the controversy between John Calvin and Michael Servetus, arguing that Calvin’s role in Servetus’s condemnation has often been misunderstood. Adger presents Calvin as a principled defender of orthodox Christianity who opposed Servetus’s anti-Trinitarian teachings, while situating the trial and execution within the legal, political, and religious assumptions of sixteenth-century Europe.

Alexander McLeod’s “Christ a Surety for Sinners” explains Christ’s role as the representative and substitute of his people in the covenant of grace. McLeod argues that humanity’s sin created a debt toward God that Christ fully satisfied through his obedience, sufferings, and death. He emphasizes that Christ’s atonement truly secures salvation for those given to him by the Father, rather than merely making salvation possible. The article concludes by calling sinners to rest entirely on the sufficiency of Christ’s work and to marvel at the grace and glory revealed in redemption.