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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.
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 ...
John Calvin. John Oecolampadius (1482–1531) Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) Martin Bucer (1491–1551) Peter Martyr Vermigli (1500–1562) Wolfgang Musculus (1497–1563) Andreas Hyperius (1511–1564) John Calvin (1509–1564) Guillaume Farel (1489–1565) Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575)
Calvin refuses communion to the libertines. The Genevan Consistory (French: Consistoire de Genève) is a council of the Protestant Church of Geneva similar to a synod in other Reformed churches. [1] The Consistory was organized by John Calvin upon his return to Geneva in 1541 in order to integrate civic life and the church. [2]
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]
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 ]
Calvin argues that in Matthew 1:25 ("[Joseph] knew her [Mary] not till she had brought forth her firstborn son") the term "firstborn" and the conjunction "till" do not contradict the doctrine of perpetual virginity, but Matthew does not tell us what happened to Mary afterwards; he wrote: "no just and well-grounded inference can be drawn from these words of the Evangelist (Matthew), as to what ...