What was john Calvin known for?

Answer 1

John Calvin, 1509-1564Born about 26 years after Luther, Calvin was one of the key reformers of the 1500s. His main centre of activity was the city of Geneva in Switzerland. In the longer term, his version of the Reformation was also very influential in the Netherlands, Scotland, among the French Huguenots - and in America. See Related LinksSee the Related Link for "Wikipedia: John Calvin" to the left. Answer(the following was extracted with permission from the Positive Atheism website)

John Calvin (1509-1564)

Protestant reformer who, nevertheless, continued to work for the Roman Catholic Inquisition

"Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness

of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness." ........John Calvin, dicsuccing free will in Institutes, Book 2, end of Chapter 5; quoted from Dr Jonathon Host, personal letter to Cliff Walker (July 7, 2003), thanks for taking the time to share these findings with us! ††

"Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?" ......John Calvin, pointing to Psalm 93:1 in his Commentary on Genesis

"[Those who assert that] the earth moves and turns ... [are motivated by] a spirit of bitterness, contradiction, and faultfinding; [possessed by the devil, they aimed] to pervert the order of nature." .....John Calvin, sermon no. 8 on 1st Corinthians, cited in William J Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth Century Portrait (1988), quoted from The Talk Origins Archive, "Cretinism or Evilution?: The Evils of Copernicanism"
John Calvin was a French pastor and theologian, during Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in Calvinism.

Answer 2

John Calvin was an important Reformation leader who taught the ideas of free will and predestination.

Answer 3

John Calvin is a person who went up against the Catholic church .

Answer 4

He invented Calvinism and published the Geneva Bible

Answer 5

John Calvin was from Switzerland, and he is important because he belived the people were saved NOT killed.

Answer 6

Reformer. He translated The Bible into English. Calvinism happens to be one of the reasons for the formation of Protestant religion.

Answer 7

His education.