JOHN CALVIN

DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH

• Birth: 1509
• Death: 1564

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

~Divine predestination

~The individual's responsibility to reorder society according to God's plan

~The idea that society must be reordered

~Followers of calvinism wanted to reorder society so that men and women would act externally as they believed internally

~Believed in "the elect", a group of people who were predestined to go to heaven

PUBLICATIONS BY JOHN CALVIN

~"Institutes of the Christian Religion"

THREATENED GROUPS

~Lutheranism

~Michael Servetus (executed)

IMPACT OF IDEAS ON EUROPEAN HISTORY

~The city implemented new ecclesiastical ordinances that made for cooperation between the magistrates and the clergy

~Genevan government made up new articles for the church based on Calvinism

~Genevan government elected syndics who favored Calvin, which changed the government

~The idea of the "elect" provided laws for strict moral discipline