CALVINISM

Calvinism
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Calvinism

John Calvin
Background
■Christianity
■St. Augustine
■The Reformation
■John Calvin
■Five Solas
■Synod of Dort
Distinctives
■Five Points (TULIP)
■Covenant Theology
■Regulative principle
Documents
■Calvin's Institutes
■Confessions of faith
■Geneva Bible
Influences
■Theodore Beza
■John Knox
■Huldrych Zwingli
■Jonathan Edwards
■Princeton theologians
Churches
■Reformed
■Presbyterian
■Congregationalist
■Reformed Baptist
■Low church Anglican
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■Afrikaners
■Huguenots
■Pilgrims
■Puritans
■Scots

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Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the Christian life.[1] The Reformed tradition was advanced by several theologians such as Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli, but the true leader and starter of this branch of Christianity bears the name of the French reformer John Calvin because of his prominent influence on it and because of his role in the confessional and ecclesiastical debates throughout the 16th century. Today, this term also refers to the doctrines and practices of the Reformed churches of which Calvin was an early leader. Less commonly, it can refer to the individual teaching of Calvin himself.[2] The system is best known for its doctrines of predestination and total depravity, stressing the absolute sovereignty of God.