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When did Calvin write the Institutes of Religion?

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1536

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What did the calvinists base their views on?

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Calvin’s writings and views

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Was Calvin a man of words?

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Yes

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What commentary did Calvin write in 1532?

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Commentary on Clementia

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Does Calvin give a scripture?

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No

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Where was there a social crisis?

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Geneva

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What had led to this social unrest in Geneva?

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Economic decline

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What type of events happened in Geneva?

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Political and religious events

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What was Geneva like before Calvin?

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Geneva was a place of social, political and religious unrest

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Did Calvin have any real power in Geneva?

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No, he had to rely on the council

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What issues was Calvin aware of?

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He was aware of the issues being raised in the church

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Where did he was political independence?

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In savoy

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Was there a church crisis in Geneva?

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Yes

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Why did the church crisis have an impact on Calvin?

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As he found it hard to preach against the traditional orthodox teachings

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When was Calvin asked to return to Geneva?

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1541

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When Calvin returned what did he become?

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An employee of the council meaning he now had influence

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Did he have complete authority in the church?

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No

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In Geneva what was the church formed of?

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Ministers and representatives of the council

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What did Calvin believe they needed to uncover?

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The primitive church

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When did Calvin consolidate his support in Geneva?

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1555

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What did Calvin want to do with his teachings?

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Spread them wider than Geneva

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What was important when looking at Calvin?

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His understanding of the church

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Why did Calvin preach persistently?

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Because of his calling

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What was Calvin skilful in?

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Debating

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What did Calvin push for in Geneva?
Religious reform
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What went hand in hand?
Church and state
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Who was always an active party in calvins teachings?
God
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What was published in the first period of 1536-1538?
The articles of the organisations of the church
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What did Calvin believe people should accept of his articles on the organisations of the church?
That they were true
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What period was his reforms?
1541 - 1549
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Who was Calvin an instrument of?
God
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How much do we know of calvins early years?
Very little
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When was he born?
1509
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Who did he feel was moving him to complete the reforms?
God
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What greatly affected one another?
Culture and church
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Who were his family devoted to?
The Roman Catholic Church
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Was Calvin private?
He was a private person who did not share his innermost feelings
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What was Calvin insisting?
Theology through his calling
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What did Calvin study?
He studied law, and did not formally study theology
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Why did Calvin feel he had been set apart from the God?
Because of the work he had been doing before his reformed ideas
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Was his calling easy to define?
No
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What did Calvin feel compelled to do?
He felt compelled to change through God
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When did Calvin mention his conversion?
20 years after it happened
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Where did he have his conversion?
Not sure where he had his conversion
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Where did Calvin feel he was being led to?
Geneva
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What did his conversion make him feel like he should do?
Work on scripture
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What have people tried to do to understand conversions?
They have tried to create patterns
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Where are there comments on Calvins conversion?
Psalms 1537
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Are conversion experiences individual?
Yes
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What studies to Calvin study throughout his reformation?
Humanist studies
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Who was Calvin associated with in 1533?
Nicholas cop
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When was Calvin in Strasbourg?
1538-1541
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What version of institutes was written in Strasbourg?
1539
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What commentary was written in Strasbourg?
Romans 1541
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What was Calvin identified as?
Another radical
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What did he believe was true?
Scripture
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What did he believe scripture could help you experience?
God
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What did Calvin believe the church was doing wrong?
Interpreting the word in any other form than scripture
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Who did Calvin need to help implement his reforms?
People willing to step outside the norms as unorthodox ideas
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What did Calvin feel was proper?
To have a group apart from the council that were heretical
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What were calvins views seen as?
Something that would destabilise society
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What did Calvin speak out against?
Radical ideas
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What did Calvin believe visions outside of scripture were?
Satanic
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What work did Calvin do?
Preached, pastoral work and active works
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What characteristics did Calvin have?
Dogmatic and arrogant
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Was he a member of the city council?
No
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What interpretation did Calvin feel he had?
The right interpretation
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How did calvins ideas spread?
Due to the structure of the church, without whom this may not have happened otherwise
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Where did difficulty of authority lie?
There was a difficulty in working out how much authority reformers and council members had
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What did Calvin not believe in?
Ongoing revelation
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How was scripture proven?
Through the testimony of the Holy Spirit
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What is spirit connected to?
Scripture
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When were ideas accepted?
When they conformed to his ideas of scripture
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What was the ultimate authority?
Scripture
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Who did Calvin strike against?
Those who argues they had experienced God outside of scripture
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What was Calvin being called to do?
Spread his ideologies like the gospel
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What did Calvin believe people should be tested against?
Scripture, especially when they had been claiming to have experiences of god outside of scripture
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Who was Calvin against?
Servetus
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What views was servetus arrested and burned at the stake for?
His anti-trinitarian views
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What ideas was servetus promoting?
Child baptism
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What do you acknowledge through scripture?
God and the self
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What is implemented in us?
Wisdom so we may glorify and worship god
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What does scripture give us the means to do?
Know and experience god
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What did Calvin believe the church could not do without him?
Experience God
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What is not enough alone?
Human judgement
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Where does wisdom come from?
The knowledge of God and ourselves
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What does the source of wisdom prove?
Testimony of the holy spirit which is true in scripture
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What has been argued to be the touchstone of calvins teachings?
The source of wisdom

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