John Calvin
French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)
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French theologian who shaped Protestant reform in 16th-century Geneva and became the intellectual backbone of Calvinism. His doctrine of predestination rippled into Reformed churches worldwide, still defining how millions approach salvation and divine will.
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John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was the 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 Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Reformed Church movements, including Continental Reformed, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Waldensians, Baptist Reformed, Calvinist…
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