Short biography of john calvin
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John Calvin bibliography
The French ReformerJohn Calvin (–) 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 (– and –), his publications spread his ideas of a properly reformed church to many parts of Europe and from there to the rest of the world. It is especially on account of his voluminous publications that he exerts such a lasting influence over Christianity and Western history.
Calvin's first published work was an edition of the RomanphilosopherSeneca's De Clementia, accompanied by a commentary demonstrating a thorough knowledge of antiquity. His first theological work, the Psychopannychia, attempted to refute the doctrine of soul sleep as promulgated by Christians whom Calvin called "Anabaptists." He finished it in but, on the advice of friends, didn't publish it until The work demonstrates that since his conversion,
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The Life and Legacy of John Calvin
2nd June
The Life and Legacy of John Calvin
A Sermon by Kenneth Padley
years ago last Monday, a man died in Geneva and was buried in an unmarked grave. He was a refugee, exiled from his place of birth, and despised by many. He claimed to be a clergyman, but had never been ordained. He was a man of sorrow, survived by neither his wife nor their children. He was highly self-effacing, leaving us virtually nothing of his character and inner life. Yet despite this inauspicity, nobody who has lived in the last years – arguably the last millennium &#; has had a greater impact on global religion. So I invite us tonight to reflect on the life and legacy of John Calvin.
Calvin was born in northeastern France in , son of an unremarkable provincial lawyer. Studies in Paris and Orleans turned him into a convinced humanist. ‘Humanists’ back then were not evangelists for secularism but scholars with a distinctive approach to
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John Calvin
French Protestant reformer (–)
For the American actor, see John Calvin (actor).
John Calvin (;[1]Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin[ʒɑ̃kalvɛ̃]; 10 July &#;&#; 27 May ) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.
Calvin was a tireless polemicist and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, includin