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    Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism...
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    Predestination is a doctrine in Calvinism dealing with the question of the control that God exercises over the world. In the words of the Westminster...
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  • Hyper-Calvinism is a branch of Protestant theology that places strong emphasis on supralapsarianism, or salvation from eternity (God elects from before...
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  • New Calvinism, also known as the Young, Restless, and Reformed Movement, is a movement within conservative Evangelicalism that reinterprets 16th century...
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    Neo-Calvinism, a form of Dutch Calvinism, is a theological movement initiated by the theologian and former Dutch prime minister Abraham Kuyper in the first...
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  • The Five Points of Calvinism, occasionally known by the mnemonic TULIP, constitute a summary of Reformed soteriology. Named after John Calvin, they largely...
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    Netherlands, Calvinism also became the official established religion following a period of persecution. During the Reformation, Calvinism was the primary...
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    Turco-Calvinism refers to the alliance or rapprochement between the followers of the Protestant Reformation and the Ottoman Empire during the 16th century...
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    continued persecution under Louis XV. By the time of his death in 1774, Calvinism had been all but eliminated from France. Persecution of Protestants officially...
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    Afrikaner Calvinism (Afrikaans: Afrikaner Calvinisme) is a cultural and religious development among Afrikaners that combined elements of seventeenth-century...
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  • Crypto-Calvinism is a pejorative term describing a segment of those members of the Lutheran Church in Germany who were accused of secretly subscribing...
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    the Netherlands. This expressed an attempt to moderate the doctrines of Calvinism related to its interpretation of predestination. Classical Arminianism...
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  • Pharmacological Calvinism is a term of disapproval purporting to describe the disapproving or condemning attitude of some Americans to the use of psychiatric...
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  • This soteriology can be articulated similarly to the five points of Calvinism. The controversy over infant baptism with the Pelagians contributed to...
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    It is also known as the School of Saumur, post redemptionism, moderate Calvinism, or hypothetical universalism. It is one of several hypothetical universalist...
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    of Reformed theology, ranging from simply embracing the Five Points of Calvinism, to accepting a modified form of federalism; all Calvinistic Baptists...
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    particular reference to the doctrines of Calvinism. The version of predestination espoused by John Calvin, after whom Calvinism is named, is sometimes referred...
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    American Christian Evangelist and author whose theology is rooted in Calvinism. Washer reports converting to Christianity while studying at the University...
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    Protestant Reformation, most Hungarians adopted first Lutheranism and then Calvinism in the form of the Hungarian Reformed Church. Key figures in the Calvinist...
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    Calvinism, though these points identify the Calvinist view on soteriology rather than summarizing the system as a whole. Broadly speaking, Calvinism stresses...
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  • between two of the emerging Protestant traditions, namely Lutheranism and Calvinism. In the first half of the 17th century, the Church of England and the...
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    limited atonement and of irresistible grace, later associated with classic Calvinism; however, others insist that Augustine's writings conflict with these...
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  • Reformed orthodoxy or Calvinist orthodoxy was an era in the history of Calvinism in the 16th to 18th centuries. Calvinist orthodoxy was paralleled by similar...
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    In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell (Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades) is the period of time between...
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    In November rioting spread to the southwest, that stronghold of strict Calvinism and covenanting tradition. The Glasgow mob rose against union sympathisers...
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    John Gill (theologian) (category Hyper-Calvinism)
    (1738) The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity, 1689–1765 by Peter Toon. The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity, 1689–1765...
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    religions, including critiques of Catholicism, Islam, Mormonism, and Calvinism, among others. Hunt's Christian theology was evangelical dispensational...
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    Puritans (section Calvinism)
    founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, wrote a critique of Puritanical Calvinism, entitled The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. Published in London...
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    Christianity is the largest religion in Hungary, with Catholicism and Calvinism being its main denominations. In the national census of 2022, 42.5% of...
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  • that final authority comes from both Scripture and tradition. Unlike Calvinism, Lutheranism retains many of the liturgical practices and sacramental...
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