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John Calvin > 
A Frenchman, schooled in the new humanist tradition and prepared at the university to be a lawyer. He fell in with a circle of French humanists who read with great interest the writings of Luther.
Then, somewhere in the period 1532-1534 Calvin experienced a "sudden conversion" (the details of which unfortunately he never discussed publicly.) From this point on his well organized mind was given over to theology rather than the law.
At the same time his theological associations became very dangerous to an increasingly suspicious French king, Francis I.
In 1536, Calvin felt compelled to write, with all respect to his monarch, a reply to Francis' suspicions about the "protestants": The Institutes of the Christian Religion. It was Calvin's hope that Francis, through this long essay, would come to understand that the protestants posed no threat to his rule--but only sought to revitalize the original Christian ideal on which the whole Christian realm ought to be properly based.
Though it was the most compelling theological treatise explaining the protestant position--it did not have its intended effect of swaying the views of Francis.
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John Hus (Jan Huss), Religious Reformer
John Hus (a.k.a. Jan Huss) was a religious thinker and reformer, born in Southern Bohemia in 1369. He initiated a reform movement based on the ideas of John Wycliffe. His... |
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Martin Luther
On October 31, 1517 Luther preached a sermon against indulgences and, according to traditional accounts, posted the 95 Theses to the door of the castle's Church of All Sa... |
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REFORMATION
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which began in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church, but ended in division and the estab... |
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