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Of these, less than 2 million are Calvinist. The main coordinating body for Calvinist churches in Germany is the Reformed Alliance. [10] Smaller, separate denominations include the Evangelical Old-Reformed Church in Lower Saxony, the Union of Evangelical Reformed Churches in Germany, and the episcopally governed Free Reformed Churches of Germany.
Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist; Reformed Presbytery in North America - Orthodox, Covenanter Presbyterian, Calvinist; Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church - less than 1000 members - Conservative, Presbyterian, Four-Point Calvinist; Vanguard Presbytery - Orthodox, Presbyterian, Calvinist
Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, [1] also called Calvinism, [a] is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.
Calvinist denominations established in the 21st century (1 C, 4 P) C. Congregationalist denominations (6 C, 15 P) P. Presbyterian denominations (6 C) R.
Calvinism follows the theological traditions set down by John Calvin, John Knox and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists differ from Lutherans on the nature of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, theories of worship, and the use of God's law for believers, among other things. There are from 60 to 80 million Christians ...
Broadly speaking Protestantism has four streams: Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and Anglicanism. While all of these Christian groups from the Church of the East on, have their own subsequent splits, the fragmentation in Protestantism has been extreme, with tens of thousands of denominations.
The first Calvinist churches were established in Europe after 1519 and were part of the Protestant Reformation. Calvinist doctrine is expressed in various confessions. A few confessions are shared by many denominations. Different denominations use different confessions, usually based on historical reasons.
Calvinist and Reformed denominations (7 C, 8 P) I. International bodies of Reformed denominations (3 C, 10 P) P. Presbyterian organizations (6 C, 5 P) R.