John Calvin Flashcards
What period was Calvin around?
1509 - 1564
Where was he from, and where was his work centralised?
Geneva
What did he put forward in 1536?
The Institutes of the Christian Religion
What is the anagram of Calvinism?
TULIP
What is T?
Total depravity
What is U?
Unconditional Predestination
What is L?
Limited Atonement
What is I?
Irresistible grace
What is P?
Perseverance of the Saints
What was Calvin involved in?
The restoration of arts and letters
What did he recover?
Classical literature
What did he bring the church back to?
The genuine meaning of scripture
What did he use his teaching techniques to do?
To restore doctrine and the genuine interpretation of scripture
Who did he believe scripture should be available to?
Teachers, pastors and ordinary Christians
What knowledge did he want to renew?
The knowledge of Christ
What did he want people to see God as?
The author of everything
What did he study?
Law
Who did he want people to be united with?
God
Who did he want to be able to read scripture?
The unlearned church
Who was he influenced by?
Erasmus
What did he see Luther as?
“A very excellent pastor of the Christian church”
What did he believe Luther could enable people to be free from?
The authority of the papacy
What did he argue Zwingli had done?
Moved too far from scripture
What did he believe the reading of scripture could do?
Restore ‘proper’ worship to the church
What did he believe the Catholic church had done?
Corrupted the church
What important book did he write?
The Institutes
