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    John Calvin (/ˈkælvɪn/; Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and...
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    The French Reformer John Calvin (1509–1564) was a theological writer who produced many sermons, biblical commentaries, letters, theological treatises,...
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  • minister, son of Isaac Casaubon. Pierre Courthial, founding dean, Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence. Daniel de Superville (1696–1773), founder of the University...
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    Christian Religion (Latin: Institutio Christianae Religionis) is John Calvin's seminal work of systematic theology. Regarded as one of the most influential...
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    Cape province of South Africa named after the French religious reformer Jean Calvin. The town falls under the Hantam Local Municipality which forms part...
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    The Barbier-Mueller Museum, founded in 1977, is located at 10 rue Jean-Calvin, in Geneva, Switzerland. Its collection contains over 7,000 pieces and includes...
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    Idelette Stordeur de Bure Calvin (1500–1549) was the wife of the French reformer John Calvin (Jean Cauvin). Idelette de Bure was born in Liège and first...
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  • at the Wayback Machine Q. 100. Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 113. Jean Calvin: Harmony of the Law vol. 4. Lev. 24:10. Act of Reparation for Blasphemies...
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    L'ancien et le ministère Archived 2009-05-23 at the Wayback Machine Jean Calvin – un des fondateurs des libertés modernes Archived 2009-05-24 at the...
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    Thanks to the printer Jean Frellon II, acquaintance of John Calvin and friend of Michel, Servetus and Calvin began to correspond. Calvin used the pseudonym...
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    Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, David Hume, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire. While governments and church encouraged printing...
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    Lavocat, H Kallendorf - Renaissance Quarterly, 2008 - JSTOR "... Finally, Jean Céard examines the lingering hold that the demonology of the sixteenth and...
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  • excommunication was revoked later that year. Gérard Cauvin, father of Jean Calvin, was excommunicated by the chapter of the diocese of Noyon on account...
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    John Calvin was a Frenchman, as were numerous other Protestant Reformers including William Farel, Pierre Viret and Theodore Beza, who was Calvin's successor...
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  • reform that was one of the reasons for holding the Council of Trent. Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion IV,12,23–28 . "Ministry and Ministries"...
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  • O'Malley, Some Basics about Celibacy). 1 Corinthians 9:5 Hebrews 13:4 Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, IV,12,23–28 . canon 10 Code of...
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  • unnaturalities." The reformer Jean Calvin agreed with Luther's criticism of 2 Maccabees, and added his own criticism as well. Calvin propounded predestination...
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    did Saint-Germain was in part intended as a direct attack on Condé. Jean Calvin himself denounced Condé as a 'wretched man' who had betrayed god for...
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    supérieure and ESPCI Paris, all four members of PSL University. Based on rue Jean-Calvin in Paris, it is named after the French physicist and Nobel Prize winner...
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    Practices ISBN 0-87973-910-X page 319 Writings on pastoral piety by Jean Calvin, Elsie Anne McKee 2002 ISBN 0-8091-0541-1 page 136 A Treatise on Good...
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  • Psychopannychia (category John Calvin)
    asleep. ... Anew French translation of Calvin's 1542 Latin work was published in Geneva in 1558: Jean Calvin, Psychopannychie. Psychopannychia, Full...
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    as being "between two pulpits", that of Rome and that of Geneva where Jean Calvin would settle permanently in 1541, and, more generally, between Catholicism...
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    1977. From left to right Jean Calvin, an unidentified pope and Martin Luther sit round a table. Luther plays a lute, whilst Calvin squeezes half an orange...
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  • order. Jean Arnauld, philosopher and theologian Denis Bérardier, priest and theologian Marie-Émile Boismard O.P. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Jean Calvin Sebastian...
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    Collège Calvin, formerly the Collège de Genève, is the oldest public secondary school in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin. On February...
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  • the opponents were ignoring guidance from leaders. Martin Luther and Jean Calvin agreed with this interpretation, and it is the most common one. Another...
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    Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, 1845, Jean Calvin, Rev. William Pringle, Edinburgh, Volume 2, p. 87 quote Archived 8 December...
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  • of the Protestant movement, led by the Frenchman, Jean Calvin, until his death in 1564 (when Calvin's ally, William Farel, assumed the spiritual leadership...
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  • theologians of the 16th century Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli) dealt primarily with "the theology of the image...
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  • English-speaking world typically knows the French-born theologian Jean Calvin as John Calvin. Such anglicisations became less usual after the sixteenth century...
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