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Mar 1, 1992 · The foundation for this public myth is the assertion that Geneva was a theocracy and Calvin was its pope. The Reluctant Reformer Oxford professor Alister McGrath writes, “Before the Reformation Geneva was an episcopal city in decline.” ( 2 ) In 1535 the city council abolished the mass and the bishop responded by excommunicating the Genevan ...
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Calvin was born on July 10, 1509, in Noyon, France, when Martin Luther was 25 years old and had just begun to teach the Bible in Wittenberg. The message and spirit of the Reformation would not reach Calvin for twenty years, and in the meantime he devoted his young adult years to the study of Medieval theology, law, and the classics. But by 1533, so...
Calvin knew what sort of ministry he wanted. He wanted the enjoyment of literary ease so he could promote the Reformed faith as a scholar. But God had radically different plans. After escaping from Paris and finally leaving France entirely, Calvin intended to go to Strasbourg for a life of peaceful literary production. But while Calvin was staying ...
The need for the Reformation was fundamentally this: Rome had “destroyed the glory of Christ in many ways” (Portrait of Calvin, 113). The reason, according to Calvin, the church was “carried about with so many strange doctrines” was “because the excellence of Christ is not perceived by us” (Portrait of Calvin, 66). In other words, the great guardia...
Geerhardus Vos has argued that this focus on the glory of God is the reason the Reformed tradition succeeded more fully than the Lutheran tradition in “mastering the rich content of the Scriptures.” Both had “cast themselves on the Scriptures.” But there was a difference: The true genius of Geneva was not the mind of John Calvin, but passion for th...
Historians debate the extent to which Geneva was a theocracy. On the one hand, Calvin's theology clearly called for separation between church and state. Other historians have stressed the enormous political power wielded on a daily basis by the clerics. Idelette and Calvin had no children survive infancy.
Nov 30, 2022 · Geneva was to be Calvin's home until he died in 1564 (except for a three-year period when he was exiled from there, only to be invited back to leadership). While there, his workload was staggering. Calvin pastored the St. Pierre church, preaching in it daily. He produced commentaries on almost every book of the Bible.
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Calvin never had any jurisdiction over the city of Geneva and that he could not even vote or carry a weapon since he was not granted the status of citizen before 1559; that is, only five years before he died.
Sep 4, 2020 · Specifically regarding the practice of the Lord’s Supper, Wallace identifies the primary reason why Calvin guarded it so jealously, and why in time it came to grip the people of Geneva so strongly. He argues, It was a visible enactment of the mystery that Christ was theirs, and they were his.
By 1555 Calvin had succeeded in establishing a theocracy in Geneva, where he served as pastor and head of the Genevan Academy and wrote the sermons, biblical commentaries, and letters that form the basis of Calvinism.
