Although much of Calvin's practice was in Geneva, his publications spread his ideas of a " correctly " reformed church to many parts of Europe.

Having made a very strong impression on Calvin, Castellio enjoyed Calvin's company so much that he remained there for a whole week in the student hostel established by Calvin and his wife.

In " The Complete Calvin And Hobbes ," Watterson does not name the inspiration for Calvin's character, but he does say Calvin is named for " a 16th-century theologian who believed in predestination ," and Hobbes for " a 17th-century philosopher with a dim view of human nature.

Recently, Presbyterian and Reformed Churches have been considering whether to restore more frequent communion, including weekly communion in more churches, considering that infrequent communion was derived from a memorialist view of the Lord's Supper, rather than Calvin's view of the sacrament as a means of grace.

In Calvin's view, sin began with the fall of Adam and propagated to all of humanity.

Scholars have debated Calvin's view of the Jews and Judaism.

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.

The title of the booklet comes from Greek psyche ( soul, mind ) with pan-nychis ( παν-νυχίς, all-night vigil, all-night banquet ), so Psychopannychia, originally, represents Calvin's view, the one he was defending ; that the soul was conscious, active.

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.

Michael Servetus taught a chiliastic view, though he was denounced by the Reformers as a heretic and executed in Geneva under Calvin's authority.

According to this view, the play demonstrates Calvin's " three-tiered concept of causation ," in which the damnation of Faustus is first willed by God, then by Satan, and finally, by himself.

Since this view represents a continuation of the thinking about the relationship between faith and reason that its founders find in 16th century Reformed theology, particularly in John Calvin's doctrine that God has planted in us a sensus divinitatis, it has come to be known as Reformed epistemology.

This peculiar doctrine of grace and free will was adopted by Amyraut, Cappel, Bochart, Daillé and others of the more learned among the Reformed ministers, who dissented from Calvin's view.

* John Calvin's view of Scripture

* John Calvin's view of Scripture

Calvin's own view on the Transfiguration were far from ambivalent:

Today most Protestants follow Calvin's view of this verse.

The Governmental view of the atonement of Hugo Grotius is, historically, a modification of Calvin's view, although it represents in some ways a return to the general nature of Anselm's theory.

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.

He was taught by Theodore Beza, Calvin's hand-picked successor, but after examination of the Scriptures, he rejected his teacher's theology that it is God who unconditionally elects some for salvation.

Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.

The book was introduced in Calvin's Commentary as a complete and finished poem:

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.

In that year, professional scribe Denis Raguenier, who had learned or developed a system of shorthand, was assigned to record all of Calvin's sermons.

The civil court condemned him to death and, with Calvin's consent, he was beheaded on 26 July.

When Perrin was elected first syndic in February 1552, Calvin's authority appeared to be at its lowest point.

Calvin's secretary Nicholas de la Fontaine composed a list of accusations that was submitted before the court.

Calvin's authority was practically uncontested during his final years, and he enjoyed an international reputation as a reformer distinct from Martin Luther.

Calvin's greatest contribution to the English-speaking community was his sheltering of Marian exiles in Geneva starting in 1555.

Within Geneva, Calvin's main concern was the creation of a collège, an institute for the education of children.

While the exact location of the grave is unknown, a stone was added in the 19th century to mark a grave traditionally thought to be Calvin's.

Calvin's theology was not without controversy.

Calvin's Defensio sanae et orthodoxae doctrinae de sacramentis ( A Defence of the Sober and Orthodox Doctrine of the Sacrament ) was his response in 1555.

Calvin's first published work was a commentary of Seneca the Younger's De Clementia.

Even the Geneva académie was eclipsed by universities in Leiden and Heidelberg, which became the new strongholds of Calvin's ideas, first identified as " Calvinism " by Joachim Westphal in 1552.

The book was introduced in Calvin's Commentary as a complete and finished poem:

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

Much earlier, he had translated Calvin's catechism into Greek, which was printed in 1554 in his father's printing room.

Here he was given chair of Greek in the newly established academy, and after Calvin's death also that of theology.

As Calvin's successor, Beza was very successful, not only in carrying on his work but also in giving peace to the Church at Geneva.

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.