e. John Calvin Sunday, November 11, 2018 1:34 PM e. Analyze the impact of the Protestant Reformation, include: the ideas of Martin Luther and John Calvin. CALVINISM Predestine: to There were divisions within Protestantism. John Calvin (1509-1564), A French predetermine or choose in advance Protestant, agreed with Luther that faith alone was enough for salvation. He talked about the "power, grace, and glory of God." He believed that God PREDESTINED certain people to be saved (the Elect), and other to be dammed ( the REPROBATES). Reprobate: wicked or unprincipled person Followers of Calvin were called Calvinists, and they spread their faith to others as beyond the hope of missionaries, emphasizing salvation through grace and good works. Calvinists believed salvation the world was divided into two kinds of people--saints and sinners. Consistory: a court for Calvinism was based in Geneva Switzerland, where Calvin set up a Consistory. Calvin enforcing moral discipline also set up a theocracy. Calvinists believed in hard work, discipline, thrift, honesty, and mortality. Genevan citizens could be punished of "crimes" like dancing, swearing, Theocracy; government drinking, and playing cards. Calvinism spread to parts of France, Scotland, and the run by church leaders Netherlands. This led to bloody religious wars in Europe.
In Germany, Catholics and Lutherans opposed Calvinists In France, wars raged between French Calvinist and Catholics. Calvinists in the Netherlands organized the Institutes of the Christian Religion: Dutch reformed Church. In Scotland, a Calvinist preacher named John Knox led a book on religious beliefs religious rebellion, overthrowing the Catholic queen (Mary of Guise "regent" and later and advice on how to Mary Stuart "Queen of Scots") and establishing the Scottish Presbyterian Church. organize and run a Protestant church By the mid-sixteenth century, it had become the most prominent form of Protestantism.
The Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536) written by Calvin, while in exile, was a comprehensive and well-proportioned catechism of Christian doctrine, a manual for church organization, and a scholarly synthesis of Protestant thought. It contained six chapters dividing the presentation into the headings Law and Decalogue, Faith, The Sermon, True Sacraments, False Sacraments, and Christian Liberty (that is, the church and state), with the emphasis throughout on worship, morals, and administration.
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