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John Calvin (/ ˈ k æ l v ɪ n /; [1] ... By June he was back in Paris with his brother Antoine, who was resolving their father's affairs. ... Paul (2004), John ...
Theodore Beza's birthplace in Vézelay. Theodore Beza was born on 24 June 1519 in Vézelay, in the province of Burgundy, France. [1] His father, Pierre de Bèze, bailiff of Vézelay, [1] descended from a Burgundian noble family; his mother, Marie Bourdelot, was known for her generosity. [2]
The Confession was based on a statement of faith sent by the Reformed churches of France to John Calvin in 1557 during a period of persecution. Working from this, and probably with the help of Theodore Beza and Pierre Viret, Calvin and his pupil Antoine de la Roche Chandieu wrote a confession in French for them in the form of thirty-five articles.
The French Reformer John Calvin (1509–1564) was a theological writer who produced many sermons, biblical commentaries, letters, theological treatises, and other works. Although nearly all of Calvin's adult life was spent in Geneva , Switzerland (1536–1538 and 1541–1564), his publications spread his ideas of a properly reformed church to ...
Title page of the first edition (1536) John Calvin was a student of law and then classics at the University of Paris.Around 1533 he became involved in religious controversies and converted to Protestantism, a new Christian reform movement which was persecuted by the Catholic Church in France, forcing him to go into hiding. [2]
Elias Palairet (1713–1765), brother of Jean Palairet, passtor successively at the French church at Greenwich, Saint John's Church, Spitalfields, and the Dutch chapel at Saint James's, Westminster, classical and Biblical philologist. [319] Félix Pécaut (1828–1898), pastor and educator. [604] Simon Pelloutier (1694–1757), French pastor in ...
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Sixteenth-century portrait of John Calvin by an unknown artist. From the collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (Library of Geneva). John Calvin is the most well-known Reformed theologian of the generation following Zwingli's death, but recent scholarship has argued that several previously overlooked individuals had at least as much influence on the development of Reformed Christianity and ...