Calvin
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Giovanni Calvin, or more simply Calvin ( - ) he was the founder of Calvinism, a shape of Protestant. Nacque with the name of Jean Cauvin to Noyon, in Picardia, . Martin Lutero its wrote 95 theses, in , when Calvin had 8 years.
Beyond the age difference, it goes emphasized also one various cultural formulation: while Lutero it has, between its theological references, and, between those philosophical ones, Guglielmo di Occam, risente Calvin mainly of the influence of Tommaso d' Aquino.
The father of Calvin, a lawyer, sent it to Sorbona of , in order to study letters and law. In she was doctor of law to Orléans. Its first published job was a commentary on the roman philosopher .
In , it was settled down to Geneva, from where it passed with the intention to o to Basel, thanks to the persuasion of the reformer Guglielmo Farel. It would have lived them until its dead women.
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Written of Calvin
- Institutions of the Christian religion
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Calvin published moreover various volumes of commentaries to .
Calvinism
As well as how much the its practical one to Geneva, the banns of Calvin diffused its ideas of one church correctly reformed, in many leave of Europe. Calvinism divenne the religion of the majority in , and it leave of Germany northerner, and was influential in and Polonia. Many coloni of the American Atlantic coast and of New England they were calvinist, comprised i puritani and the coloni Dutch of Amsterdam New (). South Africa it came founded mainly, to leave from , from Dutch calvinists (even if some they were of French origin and portoghesse), than divennero you notice like . Mountain range Lion it came wide colonized from calvinists of . John Marrant congregation under the auspices organized you one of Huntingdon Connexion. The coloni they were in great part black lealisti, Afros-American that they had fought for the British ones during revolution American.
Reformed Geneva
Giovanni Calvin had travelled to Strasburgo during the period of Ottoman wars and it was found to pass for i cantoni of Switzerland. While it was to Geneva, Guglielmo Farel the churches to help it with the cause of the church. Calvin wrote of the demand for Farel: "I felt like if God from the sky it had put down its powerful hand on me in order to stop my race". After eighteen months, the changes of Calvin and Farel caused to both to come esiliati.
For three years Calvin it worked to Strasburgo, in the church of Ugonotti French. Calvin came subsequently invited to return and reorganized the structure of Geneva following Biblical bases, with ministries, teaching, old and deacons. In 1559 Calvin school for the education of the children founded one and a hospital for the indigent ones.
Cominciò van de begroetingsDi Calvino van La een peggiorare, quandoiniziò soffrireDi headaches, pulmonary hemorrhages, gotta and it calculates. To times, it came transported on the pulpit. Calvin had also of the detractors, came threatened and insulted. Calvin passed its moments of private life on Lago of Geneva reading the writings and drinking red. Towards the end of its life it said its friends who were taken care of its every day workload, "What! You want that the getlteman finds to me to idle when he will arrive?"
Giovanni Calvin died 27 May 1564, came buried in one tomba simple and anonymous, from some part to Geneva, on its demand.
Curiosity
Calvin, a personage of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, created from Bill Waterson, it takes to the name from Giovanni Calvin.
