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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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    Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; /ˈkuːlɪdʒ/; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was an American attorney and politician who served as the...
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  • Reformed (Calvinist) tradition. Known as Calvin College for most of its history, the school is named after John Calvin, the 16th-century Protestant Reformer...
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  • John Calvin (born November 29, 1947) is an American film and television actor. He played Howie Dickerson in the short-lived television sitcom The Paul...
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    John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (March 31, 1845 – March 18, 1926) was an American politician and businessman from Vermont, and the father of Calvin Coolidge,...
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    The theology of John Calvin has been influential in both the development of the system of belief now known as Calvinism and in Protestant thought more...
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    John Calvin Maxwell (born February 20, 1947) is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership....
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  • John Calvin Pollock (October 5, 1857 – January 24, 1937) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas...
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    called Calvinism after John Calvin, influential reformer of Geneva. The term was first used by opposing Lutherans in the 1550s. Calvin did not approve of...
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    John Calvin (1509–1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation, and one of the most influential reformers. He was a central...
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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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    Bure Calvin (1500–1549) was the wife of the French reformer John Calvin (Jean Cauvin). Idelette de Bure was born in Liège and first married John Stordeur...
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    John Calvin Fleming Jr. (born July 5, 1951) is an American politician, physician, military veteran, and businessman who is the current Louisiana State...
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    positions of major Protestant representatives such as Martin Luther and John Calvin as well as some modern representatives. While it is difficult to generalize...
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    Calvin is a masculine given name. It has been particularly popular among American Protestants, who may be baptized as John Calvin to honor the religious...
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    country. Knox moved to Geneva and then to Frankfurt. In Geneva, he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and knowledge of Reformed theology and...
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    Poland, and Lithuania by Protestant Reformers such as John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli and John Knox. The political separation of the Church of England...
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    denominations.[citation needed] The original Lord's Day service designed by John Calvin was a highly-liturgical service with the Creed, Alms, Confession and...
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  • John Calvin Culver (November 2, 1943 – August 10, 1987), better known under his stage name Casey Donovan, was an American male pornographic film actor...
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    John Calvin Abney is an American musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer and DJ. Abney currently resides in Austin, Texas. Abney...
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  • Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995...
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    citizen of one of the states of the Swiss Confederacy'). Geneva was John Calvin's adopted home and the centre of the Calvinist movement. In Geneva, Hugues...
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    Presbyterian denominations in Scotland hold to the Reformed theology of John Calvin and his immediate successors, although there is a range of theological...
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    ] origin of John Calvin's theology within Augustine of Hippo's theology over a thousand years earlier. By his own admission, John Calvin's theology was...
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    rather than actively reprobating the damned.[citation needed] However, John Calvin rejected such a position, stating: "This they do ignorantly and childishly...
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  • Calvin may refer to: Calvin (given name) Particularly Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States Calvin (surname) Particularly John Calvin, theologian...
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    Railroad. He was the first son of Calvin Coolidge (President of the United States, 1923–1929) and Grace Coolidge. John Coolidge was born in Northampton...
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    John Calvin Thomas (born December 2, 1942) is an American syndicated columnist, author and radio commentator. Thomas was born in 1942 in Washington, D...
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    Bernese troops conquered Lausanne despite the cities' alliance. In 1536, John Calvin, a then 26-year old French theologist, spent some time in summer in Geneva...
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  • John Calvin Jeffries, Jr. (born ca. 1948) is a prominent law professor and was dean of the University of Virginia School of Law from 2001 to 2008. Jeffries...
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