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.

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.

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.

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

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

In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes.

His syndicate, which has since become Universal Uclick, has said that the painting was the first new artwork from Watterson that the syndicate has seen since Calvin and Hobbes ended in 1995.

He was cordially received by Calvin, and published within two years several volumes of Prediche, controversial tracts rather than sermons, explaining and vindicating his change of religion.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

The focus on human history was an important element of the biblically grounded 16th century theology of John Calvin.

Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices from the Reformed churches, where Calvin was an early leader.

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

It soon became evident that doctrine in the Reformed churches was developing in a direction independent of Martin Luther's, under the influence of numerous writers and reformers among whom Calvin eventually became preeminent.

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. ( July 4, 1872January 5, 1933 ) was the 30th President of the United States ( 1923 – 1929 ).

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., was born in Plymouth Notch, Windsor County, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, the only U. S. President to be born on Independence Day.

He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. ( 1845 – 1926 ) and Victoria Josephine Moor ( 1846 – 1885 ).

John Calvin and others suggested that the author was the Apostle James, son of Alphaeus, who was often identified with James the Just.

While Oxford was under house arrest in May, Thomas Stocker dedicated to him his Divers Sermons of Master John Calvin, stating in the dedication that he had been " brought up in your Lordship's father's house ".

* 1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission ( later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission ) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.

J. Edgar Hoover, appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1924, was by far the longest-serving FBI Director, serving until his death in 1972.

In 1553 he was executed in Geneva under the authority of John Calvin, but his teachings remained very influential amongst Italian Protestant exiles.

This branch of Christianity bears the name of the French reformer John Calvin ( also known as Jean Cauvin in Middle French ), because of his noticeable influence and because of his role in the confessional and ecclesiastical debates that happened throughout the 16th century.

: The mock epic ( A. J. Liebling, Calvin Trillin, the French writer Robert Courtine, and any good restaurant critic ) is essentially comic and treats the small ambitions of the greedy eater as though they were big and noble, spoofing the idea of the heroic while raising the minor subject to at least temporary greatness.

* 1509 – John Calvin, French theologian and pastor ( d. 1564 )

John Calvin (, born: 10 July 150927 May 1564 ) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.

At the invitation of Martin Bucer, Calvin proceeded to Strasbourg, where he became the minister of a church of French refugees.

Calvin had only intended to stay a single night, but William Farel, a fellow French reformer residing in the city, implored a most reluctant Calvin to stay and assist him in work of reforming the church there – it was his duty before God, Farel insisted.

Calvin was invited to lead a church of French refugees in Strasbourg by that city's leading reformers, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito.

Reluctantly, Calvin agreed to the marriage, on the condition that she would learn French.

By 1547, opposition to Calvin and other French refugee ministers had grown to constitute the majority of the syndics, the civil magistrates of Geneva.

* 1564 – John Calvin, French religious reformer ( b. 1509 )

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

Presbyterian heritage, and much of what they believe, began with the Swiss / French theologian and lawyer John Calvin ( 1509 – 64 ), whose writings solidified much of the Reformed thinking that came before him.

* May 27 – John Calvin, French Protestant reformer ( b. 1509 )

* July 10 – John Calvin, French religious reformer ( d. 1564 )

In defense of Calvin and the Genevan magistrates, Beza published in 1554 the work De haereticis a civili magistratu puniendis ( translated into French in 1560 ).

French Protestants were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s, and they were called Huguenots by the 1560s.

Long after the sect was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church, the remaining Waldensians, now mostly in the Luberon region of France, sought to join William Farel, John Calvin and the Protestant Reformation, and Olivetan published a French Bible for them.

In summer 1538, he invited John Calvin, the future reformer of Geneva, to lead a French refugee congregation in Strasbourg.

" The French reformer John Calvin expanded and further developed these Augustinian themes in his systematic Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.

Moss has had campaigns with major Italian, French, American, and British designers including Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Rimmel, and Bulgari.

The French version, Psychopannychie – La nuit ou le sommeil de l ' âme (" Psychopannychia – the night or the sleep of the soul ", Geneva 1558 ), may have caused the confusion that by-pannychis Calvin meant sleep ( in Greek-hypnos not-pannychis, vigil ).