Good morning,
I studied history as part of my undergraduate studies. All of history is His story. I love to study the biographies of the servants of Jesus. I get inspired to follow Christ faithfully, and I get provoked to love Him and His people.
John Calvin (né Jean Cauvin; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he suddenly converted and broke from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1520s. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the first edition of his seminal work Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Calvin's writing and preaching provided the seeds for the branch of theology that bears his name. The Presbyterian and other Reformed churches, which look to Calvin as a chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. Calvin's thought exerted considerable influence over major religious figures and entire religious movements, such as Puritanism, and his ideas have been cited as contributing to the rise of capitalism, individualism, and representative democracy in the West.
John Calvin was married to Idelette Calvin. Idelette was pregnant three times, but none of the children lived beyond infancy. Soon after coming to Geneva, Idelette gave birth to Jacques, but he lived only two weeks. John Calvin wrote to a friend, “The Lord has certainly inflicted a severe and bitter wound in the death of our infant son.” They were only married nine years when Idelette died. John described the deathbed: “She suddenly cried out in such a way that all could see that her spirit had risen far above this world. These were her words, ‘O glorious resurrection! O God of Abraham and of all our fathers, the believers of all the ages have trusted on you and none of them have hoped in vain. And now I fix my hope on you.’” After her death, he wrote: “I have been bereaved of the best companion of my life, who, if our lot had been harsher, would have been not only the willing sharer of exile and poverty, but even of death. While she lived she was the faithful helper of my ministry. From her I never experienced the slightest hindrance.” And when he sought to explain God’s will in suffering, John Calvin wrote: “Through trials and tribulations, God weans us of excessive love of this world.”
Leaning on Jesus,
Brown
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