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  2. John Calvin - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. History of Christian thought on abortion - Wikipedia

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    [67] And in a 1544 letter, Luther strongly condemned a woman who had been a guest in his house for, among other reasons, asking his maid to "jump on her body in order to kill the fetus." [68] John Calvin, in his commentary on Exodus 21:22, wrote:

  4. History of the Calvinist–Arminian debate - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Theology of John Calvin - Wikipedia

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    Kendall interpreted Calvin as believing that Christ died for all people, but intercedes only for the elect. Kendall's thesis is now a minority view as a result of work by scholars such as Paul Helm , who argues that "both Calvin and the Puritans taught that Christ died for the elect and intercedes for the elect", [ 14 ] Richard Muller, [ 15 ...

  6. Against Calvin's Booklet - Wikipedia

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    Against Calvin's Booklet, in its full form Against Calvin's Booklet in which he attempts to show that heretics must be suppressed by the right of the sword (in Latin: Contra libellum Calvini in quo ostendere conatur haereticos jure gladii coercendos esse), is a theological treatise in the form of a dialogue written by Sebastian Castellio in June 1554 and published posthumously in 1612.

  7. History of Reformed Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Sixteenth-century portrait of John Calvin by an unknown artist. From the collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (Library of Geneva). John Calvin is the most well-known Reformed theologian of the generation following Zwingli's death, but recent scholarship has argued that several previously overlooked individuals had at least as much influence on the development of Reformed Christianity and ...

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  9. Institutes of the Christian Religion - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the first edition (1536) John Calvin was a student of law and then classics at the University of Paris.Around 1533 he became involved in religious controversies and converted to Protestantism, a new Christian reform movement which was persecuted by the Catholic Church in France, forcing him to go into hiding. [2]