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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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11
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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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12
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Where did he was political independence?

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In savoy

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13
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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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17
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Did he have complete authority in the church?

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No

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18
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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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19
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What did Calvin believe they needed to uncover?

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The primitive church

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20
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When did Calvin consolidate his support in Geneva?

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1555

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21
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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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22
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What was important when looking at Calvin?

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His understanding of the church

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23
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Why did Calvin preach persistently?

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Because of his calling

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24
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What was Calvin skilful in?

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Debating

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25
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What did Calvin push for in Geneva?

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Religious reform

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What went hand in hand?

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Church and state

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27
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Who was always an active party in calvins teachings?

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God

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What was published in the first period of 1536-1538?

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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?

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That they were true

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What period was his reforms?

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1541 - 1549

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31
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Who was Calvin an instrument of?

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God

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32
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How much do we know of calvins early years?

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Very little

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When was he born?

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1509

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Who did he feel was moving him to complete the reforms?

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God

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35
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What greatly affected one another?

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Culture and church

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36
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Who were his family devoted to?

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The Roman Catholic Church

37
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Was Calvin private?

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He was a private person who did not share his innermost feelings

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What was Calvin insisting?

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Theology through his calling

39
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What did Calvin study?

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He studied law, and did not formally study theology

40
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Why did Calvin feel he had been set apart from the God?

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Because of the work he had been doing before his reformed ideas

41
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Was his calling easy to define?

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No

42
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What did Calvin feel compelled to do?

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He felt compelled to change through God

43
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When did Calvin mention his conversion?

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20 years after it happened

44
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Where did he have his conversion?

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Not sure where he had his conversion

45
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Where did Calvin feel he was being led to?

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Geneva

46
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What did his conversion make him feel like he should do?

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Work on scripture

47
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What have people tried to do to understand conversions?

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They have tried to create patterns

48
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Where are there comments on Calvins conversion?

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Psalms 1537

49
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Are conversion experiences individual?

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Yes

50
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What studies to Calvin study throughout his reformation?

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Humanist studies

51
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Who was Calvin associated with in 1533?

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Nicholas cop

52
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When was Calvin in Strasbourg?

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1538-1541

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What version of institutes was written in Strasbourg?

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1539

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What commentary was written in Strasbourg?

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Romans 1541

55
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What was Calvin identified as?

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Another radical

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What did he believe was true?

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Scripture

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What did he believe scripture could help you experience?

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God

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What did Calvin believe the church was doing wrong?

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Interpreting the word in any other form than scripture

59
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Who did Calvin need to help implement his reforms?

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People willing to step outside the norms as unorthodox ideas

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What did Calvin feel was proper?

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To have a group apart from the council that were heretical

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What were calvins views seen as?

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Something that would destabilise society

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What did Calvin speak out against?

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Radical ideas

63
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What did Calvin believe visions outside of scripture were?

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Satanic

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What work did Calvin do?

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Preached, pastoral work and active works

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What characteristics did Calvin have?

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Dogmatic and arrogant

66
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Was he a member of the city council?

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No

67
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What interpretation did Calvin feel he had?

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The right interpretation

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How did calvins ideas spread?

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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?

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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?

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Ongoing revelation

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How was scripture proven?

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Through the testimony of the Holy Spirit

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What is spirit connected to?

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Scripture

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When were ideas accepted?

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When they conformed to his ideas of scripture

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What was the ultimate authority?

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Scripture

75
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Who did Calvin strike against?

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Those who argues they had experienced God outside of scripture

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What was Calvin being called to do?

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Spread his ideologies like the gospel

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What did Calvin believe people should be tested against?

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Scripture, especially when they had been claiming to have experiences of god outside of scripture

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Who was Calvin against?

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Servetus

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What views was servetus arrested and burned at the stake for?

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His anti-trinitarian views

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What ideas was servetus promoting?

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Child baptism

81
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What do you acknowledge through scripture?

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God and the self

82
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What is implemented in us?

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Wisdom so we may glorify and worship god

83
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What does scripture give us the means to do?

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Know and experience god

84
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What did Calvin believe the church could not do without him?

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Experience God

85
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What is not enough alone?

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Human judgement

86
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Where does wisdom come from?

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The knowledge of God and ourselves

87
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What does the source of wisdom prove?

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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?

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The source of wisdom

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