John Calvin disliked the Roman Catholic Church because its priest were preaching an "infused" righteousness instead of the Biblical Gospel message of God's "forensic" righteousness. We are delcared to be righteous because of the gift of faith in Jesus Christ and His righteousness. The Roman prelate does not teach this. The Apostolic churches of Northern Italy, e.g., were very much against Jerome's teaching. The prevailing difference was the inquisitive of army of the Vatican that all but wiped them out for their daring to stand up to him.
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John Calvin is a person who went up against the Catholic church .
The Albigensians, the Cathars, and John Calvin were all Catholic heretics who left the Church.
There is no pope named John Calvin. He would be considered as a heretic in the catholic Church.
John Calvin's theories did not affect the Chuch - just as many heretics who preceded him did not affect the Church.
John Calvin certainly had his problems, but most of them were with civil authorities, in any case, he was never "wanted" by the Catholic Church. See the Catholic Encyclopedia article at the link below for an overview of his story.
John Calvin. That is why the Presbyterian Church is also known as 'Calvinist.'
John Calvin and Martin Luther a priest from Germany
john Calvin was liked among all of his people and in the catholic church people were limited to their practices and beliefs
Both men believed that the Catholic Church should end the sale of indulgences.
There is no Saint Calvin recognized by the Catholic Church. Calvin is primarily known as John Calvin, a key figure in the Protestant Reformation.
John Calvin, one of the key theologians and philosophers of the Protestant Reformation, broke away from the Catholic Church in 1530. He fled to Switzerland after anti-Protestant uprisings in France. While there, he published his "Institutes of Christian Religion" in 1536.
He believed that the Roman Catholic church had strayed away from the teachings of the Scriptures and wanted to bring the church back into line with them.