Gomarus ascribed the positions he disliked to Calvin's adversary Sebastian Castellio and his follower, Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert.

The first edition of Christianae religionis institutio ( Institutes of the Christian Religion – John Calvin's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine ) was published at Basel in March 1536.

John Calvin's international influence on the eventual development of the doctrines of the Protestant Reformation began in 1534 when Calvin was 25.

Under the city's protection, they were able to form their own reformed church under John Knox and William Whittingham and eventually carried Calvin's ideas on doctrine and polity back to England and Scotland.

* John Calvin's views on Mary

The roots of Presbyterianism lie in the European Reformation of the 16th century, with the example of John Calvin's Geneva being particularly influential.

" These Protestant libels certainly lack credibility, just as do the Catholic libels which discussed John Calvin's purported conviction for sodomy.

John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, took Calvin's teachings back to Scotland ( see Scottish Reformation ).

Geneva, during the period of John Calvin's greatest influence and the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the " Puritans " had many characteristics of Protestant theocracies.

* John Calvin's L ' Institution chrétienne ( originally in Latin ) is translated into French.

* Publication of John Calvin's Institutio Christianæ religionis, a seminal work of Protestant systematic theology.

He issued the French Bible in 1553, and many of John Calvin's writings ; the finest edition of the Institutio being that of 1553.

To " eat dirt " is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proved incorrect, such as " eating crow " and to " eat your hat " ( or shoe ), all probably originating from " to eat one's words ", which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin's tracts, on Psalm 62: “ God eateth not his words when he hath once spoken ”.

John Calvin was received and accommodated there ( during which time he wrote part of his reforming theses ) and in return Henry VIII of England ( who had drawn on Calvin's work in his separation from Rome ) offered to fund a scholarship at the University.

The nickname may have been a combined reference to the Swiss politician Besançon Hugues ( died 1532 ) and the religiously conflicted nature of Swiss republicanism in his time, using a clever derogatory pun on the name Hugues by way of the Flemish word Huisgenoten ( literally housemates ), referring to the connotations of a somewhat related word in German Eidgenosse ( Confederates: i. e. A Citizen of Switzerland ) Geneva was John Calvin's adopted home and the center of the Calvinist movement.

He argued against supralapsarianism, popularized by John Calvin's successor and Arminius's teacher at Geneva, Theodore Beza, and vigorously defended at the University of Leiden by Francis Gomarus, a colleague of Arminius.

Orthodox theology rejects Augustine's doctrine of Original Sin and actively opposes any implementation or implication of John Calvin's concepts of total depravity or irresistible grace and of Thomist or scholastic philosophical theology, viewing philosophy and discursive theology as corruptions of the true theology of the Cappadocian and early Desert Fathers which lead the Western Church astray into heresy.

However, as above Saint Anselm and John Calvin's view reject the Scapegoat symbolism for they view Jesus as making a knowing sacrifice as an agent of God, unlike an unwitting Scapegoat.

However the term has its origin in the descriptions of Eusebius of Caesarea and John of Damascus of mortalist views among Arab Christians, In the 1960s also this phrase was applied also to the views of Tyndale, Luther and others engaged in mortal introspection, from awareness that Calvin's term Psychopannychia originally described his own belief, not the belief he was calling error as well as in view of the Anabaptists, since their own writings held that the soul dies and the dead sleep.

One faction favored the church polity and liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer while the other advocated Reformed models promoted by John Calvin's Genevan church.

There, Thomas had the opportunity to study at John Calvin's newly erected Académie.

In October 1548 he moved to Geneva to be John Calvin's secretary.

Sebastian Castellio ( 1515 – 1563 ) was a French Protestant theologian who in 1554 published under a pseudonym the pamphlet Whether heretics should be persecuted ( De haereticis, an sint persequendi ) criticizing John Calvin's execution of Michael Servetus: " When Servetus fought with reasons and writings, he should have been repulsed by reasons and writings.

John Calvin's exposition of that part of the Lord's Prayer all but adopts the minority postmillennial position but Calvin, and later Charles Spurgeon, were remarkably inconsistent on eschatological matters.

The title page from the 1559 edition of John Calvin's Institutio Christianae Religionis

Eventually in 1555 the civil authorities expelled Knox and his supporters to Geneva, where they adopted a new Prayer Book The Form of Prayers, that derived chiefly from Calvin's French La Forme des Prières.

The services used a liturgy that was derived by Knox and other ministers from Calvin's Formes des Prières Ecclésiastiques.

Notably, some of the leaders of the Elizabethan anti-vestments campaign spent time in Calvin's Geneva, many of them following the successful takeover of the Frankfurt congregation and ouster of John Knox by the pro-prayerbook group.

In Calvin's Case in 1608, the Court of Exchequer Chamber ruled that a Scottish subject of King James VI of Scotland, who was also King of England, was by virtue of his allegiance to the King's person not an alien, but a natural-born subject under English law.

Agreeable to Calvin's emphasis on the need for uniformity of discipline in Geneva, Samuel Rutherford ( Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andrews, and Christian minister in 17th Century Scotland ) offered a rigorous treatment of " Libertinism " in his polemical work " A Free Disputation against pretended Liberty of Conscience " ( 1649 ).

The turning point in Calvin's fortunes occurred when Michael Servetus, a fugitive from ecclesiastical authorities, appeared in Geneva on 13 August 1553.

Calvin's first introduction to underground culture was in 1977 when he became a volunteer at Olympia's community radio station, KAOS-FM, at the age of fifteen.

Calvin's more audacious step, in his research monograph The Cerebral Code, comes when he suggests that the pattern of action potentials in any particular neocortical minicolumn can be replicated and spread through the cortex like a piece of software code and be " played " on the millions of other minicolumns in the same way one can play a million copies of a compact disc ( CD ) on a million CD players – the key difference being that while all CD players are designed to do basically the same task, the various cortical minicolumns can all have their own unique " ruts " and the copies of the firing patterns are not exact duplicates.

A subplot involves Eddie recalling his time as a young man in the late 1960s, when he first started working at the shop with Calvin's father, including the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Also, Eddie remembers his long-lost love ( Garcelle Beauvais ).

Castellio and Calvin's disagreements grew even wider when during a public meeting Castellio rose to his feet and claimed that clergy should stop persecuting those who disagree with them on matters of Biblical interpretation, and should be held to the same standards that all other believers were held to.

" He invoked the testimony of Church Fathers like Augustine, Chrysostom and Jerome to support freedom of thought, and even used Calvin's own words, written back when he was being persecuted himself by the Catholic Church: " It is unchristian to use arms against those who have been expelled from the Church, and to deny them rights common to all mankind.

Eating crow is of a family of idioms having to do with eating and being proved incorrect, such as to " eat dirt " and to " eat your hat " ( or shoe ), all probably originating from " to eat one's words ", which first appears in print in 1571 in one of John Calvin's tracts, on Psalm 62: “ God eateth not his words when he hath once spoken ”.

He raised Calvin from the age of 11 and adopted the boy when Calvin's father died a year later.

Calvin's mother, Vivian ( Maria Bello ) abandons Calvin and flees when Olivia's investigation uncovers that Vivian ( also a child of rape ) may have killed her mother's rapist.

In 1560, the Scottish Parliament abolished papal jurisdiction and approved Calvin's Confession of Faith, but did not accept many of the principles laid out in Knox's First Book of Discipline, which argued, among other things, that all of the assets of the old church should pass to the new.

In 1560, the Scottish Parliament abolished papal jurisdiction and approved Calvin's Confession of Faith, but did not accept many of the principles laid out in Knox's First Book of Discipline, which argued, amongst other things, that all of the assets of the old church should pass to the new.