Though the influence of his mother's Calvinist religiosity is evident throughout Weber's life and work, and though he maintained a deep, lifelong interest in the study of religions, Weber was open about the fact that he was personally irreligious.

It was in this document that Calvinist thought reached the zenith of its influence in the English Church.

The Guises were Catholic, and Henry Guise wanted to end growing Calvinist influence.

The college was Puritan in tone, and Hall was undoubtedly under Calvinist influence in his youth.

As a center of the Calvinist Reformation, the city of Geneva has had a great influence on the canton, which essentially consists of the city and its hinterlands.

Crypto-Calvinism is a term for Calvinist influence in the Lutheran Church during the decades just after the death of Martin Luther ( 1546 ).

Prior to the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the Catholic Church enjoyed preferential treatment from the French state ( formally along with the Jewish, Lutheran and Calvinist minority religions, but in practice with much more influence than those ).

Described later as an " inner sanctum ", " an immense informal network of influence ", and by Jan Smuts as a " dangerous, cunning, political fascist organization ", in 1920 Jong Zuid Afrika now restyled as the Afrikaner Broederbond, was a grouping of 37 white men of Afrikaner ethnicity, Afrikaans language, and the Calvinist Dutch Reformed faith, who shared cultural, semi-religious, and deeply political objectives based on traditions and experiences dating back to the arrival of Dutch white settlers, French Huguenots, and Germans at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries and including the dramatic events of the Great Trek in the 1830s and 40's.

Canon Jakob zu Eltz was elected Prince-Archbishop of Trier in 1567 ; he was one of the strongest champions of the Counter-Reformation and allied himself with the Jesuits in opposing Lutheran and Calvinist influence in the region.

Although Calvinist and Lutheran theologies of salvation differ significantly on issues such as the nature of predestination and the salvific role of the sacraments ( see means of grace ), both branches of historic Protestantism claim the theology of Augustine as a principal influence.

More traditional low church Anglicans, under the influence of Calvinist or Reformed thought inherited from the Reformation era, reject the doctrine that the sacraments confer grace ex opere operato ( e. g. baptismal regeneration ) and lay stress on the Bible as the ultimate source of authority in matters of faith necessary for salvation.

" A significant influence on Rushdoony and the theonomists came from Calvinist philosophers and theologians, including the presuppositionalism of Cornelius Van Til ( 1895 – 1987 ), though Van Til himself disavowed any entanglement of his work with political movements.

As Oberkirchenrath ( synodal councillor ) Stahl used all his influence to weaken the Prussian Union of churches ( i. e. that compromise between the Calvinist and Lutheran doctrines which is the essence of the Evangelical Church in Prussia ) and to strengthen the influence of the Lutheran Church ( cf.

Whitefield wanted the orphanage to be a place of strong Calvinist influence with a wholesome atmosphere and strong discipline.

His influence was strong in Germany and the Netherlands, and on Puritan and Calvinist theologians of England, Scotland, and New England.

With the arrival of Calvinism, music was relatively simple, at least in the parts of France subject to Calvinist influence.

It also remains influential among Christian socialist circles in Britain in the Church of England, Methodist and Calvinist movements. In Catholicism, liberation theology was a radical Marxist attempt to promote the Social Gospel.

While little remains of the Radziwiłł castle, the crypt of the Calvinist church ( 1631 ) houses the family mausoleum, including the tombs of Krzysztof Radziwiłł and his son Janusz.

In spite of opposition, the doctrine of the universal extent of the atonement became and remains prevalent outside of Calvinist circles.

A building of the 17th century is all that remains of the old Calvinist university ( see below ).

This remains Orthodox Calvinist until this day.

( Calvinist / Reformed )-discusses monergism, the view that the new birth is entirely the work of God ( as opposed to synergism which teaches that the believer is also active to some extent.

As a logical consequence, the meaning of history is known only through the knowledge of God ( an idea similar to this can be found in the speculations of Augustine of Hippo and some Calvinist philosophers, such as Herman Dooyeweerd ).

Note that most of these verses do not distinguish between the conditional election ( Arminian ) and unconditional election ( Calvinist ), but are simply evidence of some type of election.

Various strands of Calvinist thought of the 17th century were taken up by different parts of the Puritan movement, and in particular Amyraldism was adopted by some influential figures ( John Davenant, Samuel Ward, and to some extent Richard Baxter ).

Practically all other U. S. Presbyterian bodies ( the Cumberland Presbyterians being a partial exception ) profess some measure of doctrinal Calvinist propositionalism, literalist hermeneutics, and conservative politics.

Morse expressed some of his Calvinist beliefs in his painting Landing of the Pilgrims, through the depiction of simple clothing as well as the people's austere facial features.

Finally, upon the coronation of Elizabeth I and the re-establishment of the separate Church of England the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion were established by a Convocation of the Church in 1563, under the direction of Matthew Parker, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, which pulled back from some of the more extreme Calvinist thinking and created the peculiar English reformed doctrine.

Born into a Huguenot family, youngest of the ten children of a Calvinist pastor named Charles Martin, Frank Martin was improvising at the piano even before he started school, and at the age of 9, despite having received no musical teaching, he wrote some complete songs.

This group had dissented from Calvinist orthodoxy on the basis of their belief that all persons could find salvation ( as opposed to the Calvinist idea of double predestination, excluding some from salvation.

This position does attract opposition from some evangelicals, who charge that such an attitude refutes or slights Reformation ( particularly Calvinist ) teachings that believers are justified by grace through faith and not through any efforts or states of mind on their part, that the effects of original sin remain even in the most faithful of souls.

Calvinistic baptist groups presently using the term Sovereign Grace include the Sovereign Grace Baptist Association, the Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada, and some among the growing Calvinist strand of Independent Baptists, including several hundred Landmark Independent Baptist churches.

He attempted to reform Calvinism, and lent his name to a movement — Arminianism — which resisted some of the Calvinist tenets ( unconditional election, limited atonement ).

That is to say, at some point the Calvinist rationale informing the " spirit " of capitalism became unreliant on the underlying religious movement behind it, leaving only rational capitalism.

( Frame notes that the apologist is here akin to the psychiatrist who presents the truth about the paranoid's delusions, trusting that his patient knows the truth at some level and can accept it — though Frame, as a Calvinist, would say the special intervention of God in the Holy Spirit is also required for the unbeliever to accept ultimate truths.

It is a perspective not uncommon " in the pews " ( that is, among lay members ) of some Reformed churches, even among those whose official doctrines are more in accord with the Calvinist spiritual real presence discussed above.

Though some Calvinist congregations of Huguenot origin were organized in the Lower Saxon Confederation ().

In the 18th century members of some of these congregations became dissatisfied with the theological innovations of some trained ministers, and created new congregations such as Hengoed near Ystrad Mynach In the same century, churches were sometimes involved in the Methodist movement, especially Groeswen and Watford near Caerphilly, which both received frequent visits from John Wesley The largest denomination, however, became the Calvinist Methodists ( later the Presbyterian Church of Wales ), whose distinctive grey stone chapels can be seen in many parts.

Covenant theology is a prominent feature in Protestant theology, especially in churches holding a Calvinist view of theology such as the Reformed churches and Presbyterian churches, Reformed Baptist churches, and, in different forms, some Methodist churches.

Unconditional election is the Calvinist teaching that before God created the world, he chose to save some people according to his own purposes and apart from any conditions related to those persons.

In Calvinist and some other churches ( Waldensians, Katharoi, Anabaptists, Particular Baptists, etc.