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He was also a major political strategist and thinker. He modeled the social organization entirely on biblical principles. It was Calvin, for instance who established the same hierarchy we utilize today in Christian churches. He incorporated the church into the Geneva city government; he assisted in the complete restructuring of municipal government to involve church leaders in the city's decisions. Calvin also initiated statute reforms to impose a moral code on the city.
By the middle of the fifteenth century, the city of Geneva was completely Calvinist in thought and structure. It had become, by far, the most important Protestant center of Europe in that century. Those Protestants no long desired in other countries such as France, England, Scotland, and the Netherlands took refuge in Geneva.
By the middle of the next century, almost fifty percent of Geneva consisted of foreign Protestants who, firmly adopted the most fervent Calvinist doctrines. This is the reason that Calvinism reform became the overwhelmingly dominating theology and that Protestantism thrived from the seventeenth century, and still does.
Calvin literally transformed the philosophical, political, religious, and social landscape of Europe.
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1 Robinson, B.A. "Belief systems within Christianity: Calvinism." Religioustolerance.org. July 20, 2004. http://www.religioustolerance.org/calvinism.htm (accessed July 24, 2009).
2 Steele, D.N., and C.C. Thomas. The five points of Calvinism; defined, defended, documented. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P & R. Publishing, 1963, 30
Ibid., 38-39
Slick, M.J. "The Five Points of Calvinism." Calvinist Corner. n.d. http://www.religioustolerance.org/calvinism.htm (accessed July 25, 2009).
Robinson, Belief Systems within Christianity, n.p.
6 Schneider, J. "Calvin and Luther on Universal Salvation." blogspot.com. April 26, 2005. http://thejoshuavictortheory.blogspot.com/2005/04/calvin-and-luther-on-unive_111455996954521476.html (accessed July 25, 2009).
7 OPC. "Differences between Lutheran and Presbyterian." Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). n.d. http://www.opc.org/qa.html?question_id=292 (accessed July 25, 2009
Ibid.
Ibid.
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OPC. "Differences between Lutheran and Presbyterian." Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). n.d. http://www.opc.org/qa.html?question_id=292 (accessed July 25, 2009).
Robinson, B.A. "Belief systems within Christianity: Calvinism." Religioustolerance.org. July 20, 2004. http://www.religioustolerance.org/calvinism.htm (accessed July 24, 2009).
Schneider, J. "Calvin and Luther on Universal Salvation." blogspot.com. April 26, 2005. http://thejoshuavictortheory.blogspot.com/2005/04/calvin-and-luther-on-unive_111455996954521476.html (accessed July 25, 2009).
Slick, M.J. "The Five Points of Calvinism." Calvinist Corner. n.d. http://www.religioustolerance.org/calvinism.htm (accessed July 25, 2009).
1 Robinson, B.A. "Belief systems within Christianity: Calvinism." Religioustolerance.org. July 20, 2004. http://www.religioustolerance.org/calvinism.htm (accessed July 24, 2009).
Slick, M.J. "The Five Points of Calvinism." Calvinist Corner. n.d. http://www.religioustolerance.org/calvinism.htm (accessed July 25, 2009).
6 Schneider, J. "Calvin and Luther on Universal Salvation." blogspot.com. April 26, 2005. http://thejoshuavictortheory.blogspot.com/2005/04/calvin-and-luther-on-unive_111455996954521476.html (accessed July 25, 2009).
7 OPC. "Differences between Lutheran and Presbyterian." Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). n.d. http://www.opc.org/qa.html?question_id=292 (accessed July 25, 2009
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