calvinism

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The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches.

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In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject. Paul Tillich

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. Chaim Potok

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world. George Carey

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. Ralph Adams Cram

Biographer John Niven says: Calhoun admired Dwight's extemporaneous sermons, his seemingly encyclopedic knowledge, and his awesome mastery of the classics, of the tenets of Calvinism, and of metaphysics. Source: Internet

Although the two scholars agreed on many fundamental characteristics about Calvinism, their understanding of its historical impact was quite different. Source: Internet

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