John Calvin

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John Calvin was a 16th-century French theologian and key leader of the Protestant Reformation whose teachings laid the foundations of the Reformed tradition in Christianity.

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John Calvin canonical 172
Jean Calvin 6
Calvin 1

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instanceOf Bible commentator
Christian theologian
French person
Protestant reformer
Reformed theologian
author
clergy
human
theologian
ageAtDeath 54
alsoKnownAs John Calvin
surface form: Calvin

John Calvin
surface form: Jean Calvin
birthName Jehan Cauvin
burialPlace Geneva
surface form: Geneva, Switzerland
causeOfDeath illness
citizenshipGranted Geneva
citizenshipGrantedYear 1559
collaboratedWith Martin Bucer
William Farel
conflictWith Michael Servetus
conversionPeriod early 1530s
convertedTo Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
countryOfCitizenship France
surface form: Kingdom of France
dateOfBirth 1509-07-10
dateOfDeath 1564-05-27
developed Genevan church ordinances
Reformed church governance
education Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris
era 16th century
Reformation
surface form: Protestant Reformation
fieldOfWork biblical exegesis
church polity
theology
influenced Dutch Reformed Church
Puritanism
surface form: English Puritans

Huguenots
Presbyterian
surface form: Presbyterianism

Puritanism
Reformed churches
influencedBy Augustine of Hippo
Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples
Martin Luther
knownFor Calvinism
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Reformed theology
doctrine of predestination
leadership in the Protestant Reformation in Geneva
language French
Latin
maritalStatus married
mentorOf Theodore Beza
movement Reformation
name John Calvin self-link
notableWork Commentaries on the Bible
Institutes of the Christian Religion
occupation Bible commentator
author
pastor
theologian
placeOfBirth Noyon, Picardy, Kingdom of France
placeOfDeath Geneva
surface form: Geneva, Republic of Geneva
positionHeld leader of the Reformed Church in Geneva
pastor in Geneva
religion Christianity
religiousTradition Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
residence Geneva
Strasbourg
spokeAt Genevan Academy
spouse Idelette de Bure
theologicalEmphasis irresistible grace
perseverance of the saints
sovereignty of God
total depravity
unconditional election
theologicalTradition Reformed tradition
wroteIn Geneva

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Noyon birthplaceOf John Calvin
Noyon hasNotablePerson John Calvin
Thomas Sampson associatedWith John Calvin
Calvinist Methodism influencedBy John Calvin
Michel de Villeneuve opposedBy John Calvin
subject surface form: Michael Servetus
Christianismi Restitutio opposedBy John Calvin
Cimetière de Plainpalais burialPlaceOf John Calvin
this entity surface form: Jean Calvin
Cemetery of the Kings hasGraveOf John Calvin
this entity surface form: Jean Calvin
Zurich church associatedWith John Calvin
William Whittingham relative John Calvin
William Whittingham influencedBy John Calvin
Collège de Montaigu educated John Calvin
Collège de Montaigu notableAlumni John Calvin
Church Dogmatics (Kirchliche Dogmatik) influencedBy John Calvin
subject surface form: Church Dogmatics
Neo-orthodoxy influencedBy John Calvin
the Six Johns influencedBy John Calvin
John Erskine of Dun influencedBy John Calvin
Pierre Viret closeCollaborator John Calvin
John Foxe influencedBy John Calvin
multi-volume work Systematic Theology influencedBy John Calvin
subject surface form: Systematic Theology (Charles Hodge)
Herman Bavinck influencedBy John Calvin
Reformed Dogmatics influencedBy John Calvin
Richard B. Gaffin Jr. influencedBy John Calvin
Neo-Calvinism influencedBy John Calvin
John M. Frame influencedBy John Calvin
Zacharias Baer influencedBy John Calvin
subject surface form: Zacharias Ursinus
Zrsinus influencedBy John Calvin
Johannes Maccovius influencedBy John Calvin
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Johannes Bogerman influencedBy John Calvin
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Hermannus Witsius influencedBy John Calvin
Benedict Turretin influencedBy John Calvin
Calvinia namedAfter John Calvin