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John Calvin Open page from John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1576 edition, showing Latin text with handwritten marginal notes and annotations.
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Calvinism

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Sather Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley. Author of John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait and others.
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Calvinism , the theology advanced by John Calvin, a Protestant reformer in the 16th century, and its development by his followers. The term also refers to doctrines and practices derived from the works of Calvin and his followers that are characteristic of the Reformed churches. The Calvinist form of Protestantism is widely thought to have had a major impact on the formation of the modern world. At the age of 27, Calvin published Institutes of...

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