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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. Theology of John Calvin - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Category:John Calvin - Wikipedia

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    Theology of John Calvin; Treatise on Relics This page was last edited on 15 April 2024, at 21:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  5. Reformed Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, [1] also called Calvinism, [a] is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.

  6. 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]

  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 ...

  8. John Calvin bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The title page from the 1834 edition of John Calvin's Institutio Christiane Religionis. Calvin developed his theology, the most enduring component of his thought, in his biblical commentaries as well as his sermons and treatises, and he gave the most concise expression of his views on Christian theology in his magnum opus, the Institutes of the Christian Religion. [3]

  9. Christianity in the 16th century - Wikipedia

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    John Calvin was a French cleric and doctor of law. He belonged to the second generation of the Reformation, publishing his theological tome, the Institutes of the Christian Religion , in 1536 (later revised) and establishing himself as a leader of the Reformed church in Geneva , which became an "unofficial capital" of Reformed Christianity in ...