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About John Calvin

John Calvin (né Jean Cauvin; 10 July 1509 Noyon – 27 May 1564) was an influential French theologian during the Protestant Reformation who expounded a system of reformed Christian theology later referred to as Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he experienced a sudden conversion to the reformed faith in the 1520s. After a violent uprising against Protestants in France, he was forced to flee to Basel, Switzerland, where in 1536 he published the first edition of his seminal work, Institutes of the Christian Religion.

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