John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a famous French reformer, theologian, and founder of the Calvinist school (known as huguenotism in France), an important faction of Protestant Christianity. Known as the Pope of Geneva. (Photo by Che Jixin)
Calvin was born on 10 July 1509 in Nouyon, Picardy, northern France. His father was the secretary of the bishop and was quite famous. Her mother, the daughter of a Khenpo leih innkeeper, died prematurely. Calvin was educated in an aristocratic family in Nouvarong.
First, Calvin was a theologian and a recognized systematic theological leader of the Reformation doctrine of Christianity. In 1523, he entered the University of Paris to study law, received a master's degree in liberal arts, and then went to Orleans to study and obtained a doctorate in law. Returning to Paris in 1531 to specialize in theology, he became a Protestant in 1534 and fled to Basel, Switzerland, after being persecuted by the government for advocating Lutheranism. Calvin's house at 14 Rue Municipale des Villeneuves, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Creation is the main theme of his life.
More systematic and methodical than church pioneers like Augustine and the ecclesiastical scholar Thomas Aquinas, Calvinist theology is based on a profound and thorough analysis of sin and grace in Paul's epistles, and he has an extremely rare ability to make clear, powerful, and persuasive arguments and explanations. He established a whole set of teachings, which posterity named after him.
Calvin's influence was not limited to religious beliefs and moral codes, he attracted a large number of European Protestant refugees to Geneva, making it an international center of Reformation, known as the "Rome of Protestantism", and he himself was known as the "Pope of Protestantism". Calvin wrote extensively, with 52 volumes of the Complete Works of Calvin handed down. As an expert in language and writing, he translated the Bible into French and contributed greatly to the french script.