In the dedicatory letter, Calvin praised the work of his predecessors Philipp Melanchthon, Heinrich Bullinger, and Martin Bucer, but he also took care to distinguish his own work from theirs and to criticise some of their shortcomings.

Calvin took a prosaic view, writing to one correspondent: I, who have the air of being so hostile to celibacy, I am still not married and do not know whether I will ever be.

Louis Bourgeois, also a refugee, lived and taught music in Geneva for sixteen years and Calvin took the opportunity to add his hymns, the most famous being the Old Hundredth.

Puritans adopted a Reformed theology and in that sense were Calvinists ( as many of their earlier opponents were, too ), but also took note of radical views critical of Zwingli in Zurich and Calvin in Geneva.

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

Tyler's precedent made it possible for Vice Presidents Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson to ascend to the presidency ( Gerald Ford took office after the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment ).

The Dallas Cowboys also took roster hits when WFL teams in Hawaii and Houston signed running back Calvin Hill and quarterback Craig Morton respectively.

Servetus sent Calvin several more letters, to which Calvin took offense .< ref > Will Durant < cite > The Story of Civilization: The Reformation </ cite > Chapter XXI, page 481 </ ref > Thus, Calvin's antagonism against Servetus seems to have been based not simply on his views but also on Servetus's tone, which he considered inappropriate.

Between Calvin, and Arminius, born four years before Calvin's death, a Protestant Scholasticism took from various loci and authorities of the Western Middle Ages.

Campbell took his cue from his close reading of the early church fathers, the historic Reformed confessions and catechisms, John Calvin, Martin Luther's commentary on Galatians, and Jonathan Edwards ' works.

Despite being nicknamed " Silent Cal ," many reporters covering the White House found President Calvin Coolidge to be fairly accessible once he took office in 1923 following the death of President Warren G. Harding.

Calvin Griffith took over the Senators after his uncle Clark Griffith died in 1955, and decided Killebrew was ready to become the Senators ' regular third baseman.

The first award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was made by President Calvin Coolidge on May 2, 1927, to ten aviators of the Air Corps who had participated in the U. S. Army Pan American Flight, which took place from December 21, 1926 to May 2, 1927.

Eight years have gone by since divorced father Scott Calvin ( Tim Allen ) first took up the Santa Claus suit, and became subject to The Santa Clause.

After six years of teaching and research at Berkeley, he moved back to Michigan and took employment at Calvin College in 1966 where he taught physics for 16 years and later served as chairman of the Physics Department.

His nephew, Calvin Griffith took over.

The company took its name from its founders, Calvin and Irma Louise Hefte.

He was succeeded by Dr. Parlett Moore in 1956, who served until Dr. Calvin W. Burnett took over as Coppin's third president in 1970.

John Calvin and others read this as a metaphor: so focused is she on the worldly concern of who took Jesus ' body, she is temporarily blind to the greater event behind its " disappearance ".

Thus, in North America, there is an active second generation of reformational philosophers in Calvin Seerveld ; a third generation including Hendrik Hart, Bernard Zylstra ( deceased ), James Olthius, Arnold DeGraaff ( afterward a practicing psychotherapist for 30 years and co-founder of Mono Therapy Center, Mono, Ontario ), Thomas McIntire, Albert M. Wolters, William Rowe, George VanderVelde ( a theologian who took his doctorate under G. C. Berkouwer ); and fourth-generationers Paul Marshall and Robert Sweetman may be added-to name just those who have had active professorial roles at ICS.

Calvin Carr, Curtis ' younger brother, stole the alchemy gun and took the Chemistro name.

From 1996 to 2002, Lynx took inspiration from Calvin Klein fragrances ( also owned by Unilever at that time ), using the same fragrance consultant, Ann Gottlieb, to develop the scents to launch variants, such as Dimension, Apollo, Dark Temptation, Gravity, and Phoenix .. See an interview of Ann Gottlieb, in which she speaks about Axe fragrance development: http :// www. osmoz. com / News-Trends / Interviews / Perfumery-Professions-Ann-Gottlieb

In response to the slander of Catholics who took this for a judgment upon them for being heretics, Calvin said he was content with his many sons in the faith.

Calvin was a dogmatician ( systematic theology ), as exhibited in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and an exegete who over time translated the Bible from the " original languages " in the form of his grand series of Commentaries on all but one of its books ( the Book of Revelation, which provided a problem to him in its metaphory, not yielding robustly to his binomial formula of letter and spirit: either literal, or figurative ).

Calvin tried to distance himself from the allegorical method of Christian interpretation of the Bible, attempted distance certainly from the method's primacy, while facing in the Gospels " the parabolic message of the Cross " ( Leon Morris, etc .).

Wells proposed in 1899 that handaxes were used as missile weapons to hunt prey – an interpretation supported by William H. Calvin.

Its teaching on original sin is largely based on but not identical with that of Augustine, and is opposed to the interpretation of Augustine advanced by Martin Luther and John Calvin.

However, Arminius differed with Calvin in believing that the sin could be committed by believers, a conclusion he reached through his interpretation of Hebrews 6: 4-6.

" He repeatedly argued against one man ( Calvin )' s inerrant interpretation of Christian Scripture and concluded that a heretic is anyone who disagrees with another regarding the meaning of Scripture, thus being a relative term and a relative charge.

John Calvin wholly rejected this interpretation.

John Calvin supported this view, and the Geneva Bible made this interpretation explicit.

This interpretation was first advanced by Erasmus, and received the backing of Luther, John Calvin, and most other major Protestant thinkers.

Woodrow Wilson, with whom he began his years in Washington, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, FDR, with whom he managed a social revolution.

`` What Master Calvin says is true.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

For some adherents it represents a non-papal Catholicism, for others a form of Protestantism though without a dominant guiding figure such as Luther, Knox, Calvin, Zwingli or Wesley.

* 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva.

* 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding

Among the original champions of Protestantism who rejected the doctrine of apostolic succession were John Calvin, and Martin Luther.

Since “ a cappella ” singing brought a new polyphony with instrumental accompaniment, it is not surprising that Protestant reformers who opposed the instruments ( such as Calvin and Zwingli ) also opposed the polyphony.

In February 1994, watchdog group Morality in Media claimed that the death of 8-month-old Natalia Rivera, struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel by 18-year-old Calvin J.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

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.

" There seems to be little doubt that this could only be John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, respectively.

He designed grocery advertisements for four years prior to creating Calvin and Hobbes.

" Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18, 1985.

In Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, he wrote that his influences included Charles Schulz for Peanuts ; Walt Kelly for Pogo and George Herriman for Krazy Kat.

He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities.

Despite this, many knockoffs have been found, including college T-shirts which show Calvin and Hobbes binge drinking or Calvin urinating on a logo.

The last strip of Calvin and Hobbes was published on December 31, 1995.

Since the conclusion of Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson has taken up painting, at one point drawing landscapes of the woods with his father.

Watterson has kept away from the public eye and has given no indication of resuming the strip, creating new works based on the characters, or embarking on other projects, though he has published several anthologies of Calvin and Hobbes strips.