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Definition of John calvin

1. Noun. Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564).

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Literary usage of John calvin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tracts Relating to the Reformationby Jean Calvin, Théodore de Bèze, Henry Beveridge by Jean Calvin, Théodore de Bèze, Henry Beveridge (1844)
"v. 2 has title: Tracts containing treatises on the sacraments, Catechism of the Church of Geneva, Forms of prayer, and Confessions of faith; v. 3: Tracts..."

2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"CHAPTER VII john calvin AND THE GENEVAN REFORMATION THE Reformation was firmly ... Such a leader at length appeared in the person of john calvin, ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1851)
"T/ic Life and Times of john calvin, the Great Reformer. ... The Life of john calvin. Compiled from Authentic Sources, and particularly from his ..."

4. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introduction and Notes by William Caxton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt (1910)
"For I shall not be afraid to acknowledge, that this treatise contains a summary of that very doctrine, john calvin was born at Noyon, Picardy, France, ..."

5. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"john calvin AND THE GENEVAN REFORMATION. THE Reformation was firmly established in German ... Such a leader at length appeared in the person of john calvin, ..."

6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"DEDICATION OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY john calvin (1536) To His Most Christian Majesty, FRANCIS, King of the French, and his Sovereign, ..."

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