there has been scholarly debate about john calvin's use of the concept of accommodation which continues to the present day. scholars like e. david willis and ford lewis battles, and more recently arnold huijgen, have argued that calvin developed the idea from sources related to classical rhetoric while others such as david f. wright and jon balserak have argued that calvin's usage of the idea of divine accommodation is too diffuse to fit into any concept (such as decorum) associated with rhetoric. none of these scholars are disputing calvin's credentials as a renaissance humanist but rather whether they explain his appreciation and use of divine accommodation. both groups acknowledge calvin's indebtedness to the church fathers from whom he appropriated the motif, or cluster of motifs, of divine accommodation.