john calvin

In the second part of the sixteenth century Calvinism replaced Lutheranism as the omnipotent protestant force in Europe. The Calvinist believed that Christians should reorganize society according to the word of god, or the bible and that the church and state were designed to work together with the state enforcing the church. They also believed in divine predestination, in which god has pre-decided whether one is to be saved or condemned. Calvin sought to articulate …

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