Glimpses #18: John Calvin Leads Geneva Reform
Format: 2-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: God alone knows who is elect (saved) and who isn't. But, Calvin said, a moral life shows that a person is (probably) one of the elect. Calvin himself was intensely moral and energetic, and he impressed on others the need to work out their salvation—not to be saved but to show they are saved. This emphasis on doing, on acting to transform a sinful world, became one of the chief characteristics of Calvinism.
In emphasizing God's sovereignty, Calvin's Institutes lead the reader to believe that no person—king, bishop, or anyone else--can demand our ultimate loyalty. Calvin never taught explicitly that men have a "right" to revolution, but it is implied. In this sense his works are amazingly "modern."
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