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John Calvin (/ ˈ k æ l v ɪ n /; [1] Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
John Calvin (1509–1564), from whose name Calvinism is derived. Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609), from whose name Arminianism is derived. The history of the Calvinist–Arminian debate begins in the early 17th century in the Netherlands with a Christian theological dispute between the followers of John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius and continues ...
The French Reformer John Calvin (1509–1564) was a theological writer who produced many sermons, biblical commentaries, letters, theological treatises, and other works. Although nearly all of Calvin's adult life was spent in Geneva , Switzerland (1536–1538 and 1541–1564), his publications spread his ideas of a properly reformed church to ...
Calvin also asserted that “There could be no worship of God without the proper preaching of the Word.” [35] In selecting hymns for church services, Calvin avoided anything that may have invited “sensuality and self-gratification.” [36] To this effect, many of the songs which received his approval were simple in nature and lacked the ...
February 6 – John Calvin, in the throes of his final illness, preaches his last sermon, in Geneva. [2] March 1 – Ivan Fyodorov with Pyotr Mstislavets prints the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles (an Apostolos), the first printed work in the Russian language that can be dated, at the Moscow Print Yard. unknown dates
Pulpit of St. Pierre Cathedral, where John Calvin preached Rather than preaching on the appointed gospel , as was the common practice at the time Zwingli preached through consecutive books of the Bible, [ 1 ] a practice known as lectio continua which he learned from reading the sermons of John Chrysostom . [ 22 ]
Bolsec was banished from the city, and after Calvin's death, he wrote a biography which severely maligned Calvin's character. [35] In the following year, Joachim Westphal , a Gnesio-Lutheran pastor in Hamburg, condemned Calvin and Zwingli as heretics in denying the eucharistic doctrine of the union of Christ's body with the elements.
Foreword to The Theater of His Glory: Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin, by Susan E. Schreiner, ix-x. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995. Preface to Systematic Theology, new ed., by Louis Berkhof, v-viii. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996. Foreword to John Calvin and the Will: A Critique and Corrective, by Dewey J. Hoitenga Jr., 5 ...