Modern Church History 1517 and After: Part 4
THE CALVINISTIC REFORMATION IN GENEVA
Part of Modern Church History 1517-
May 9, 2023
THE CALVINISTIC REFORMATION IN GENEVA
1509 - 1564
Life of Protestant theologian and Reformer John Calvin.
c. 1511
John Calvin attends school in Paris, learns Latin.
1525
John Calvin’s father encourages him to study law instead of pursuing the priesthood.
c. 1529 - c. 1533
John Calvin converts from Roman Catholicism to the Reformed Protestant vision of Christianity.
1532
John Calvin receives his law license.
1536
John Calvin publishes the first version of The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
1536 - 1538
John Calvin and William Farel work to establish the Reformation in Geneva.
1538 - 1541
John Calvin writes and preaches in Strasbourg.
1540
John Calvin marries the widow Idelette de Bure.
1541
John Calvin returns to Geneva where he remains the rest of his life.
1549
John Calvin’s wife, Idelette, dies of illness.
1553
John Calvin condemns Michael Servetus as a heretic; Servetus is burned.
1555
John Calvin’s political opponents, the libertines, are ousted; Calvin becomes the most powerful authority in Geneva.
27 May 1564
John Calvin dies of illness at Geneva.
TULIP
Total Depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonment
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints
The Reformed Faith Outside of Switzerland
France
Francis I 1515-1517
Jacques Lefèvre (1455–1536)
After 1560 the French Protestants became known as Huguenots.
Jansenism
Blaise Pascal (1623–62)
Germany
Hungary
Scotland
Ireland
Holland
Bibliography and Other readings
https://carm.org/tables-and-charts/calvinism-arminianism-comparison-table/
https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Huldrych_Zwingli/
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/snr/6132/34549
Cairns, Earle E. Christianity through the Centuries: A History of the Christian Church. Third Edition, Revised and Expanded. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996.