Where did John Calvin establish the Reformed Protestant tradition?
Calvin (1509–1564) was French by birth but settled at Geneva from 1536 (with a three-year exile in Strasbourg). His *Institutes of the Christian Religion* (1536, repeatedly revised) is the foundational text of Reformed Protestantism. Geneva under Calvin became the international Protestant intellectual centre and the model for Reformed church discipline in Scotland, the Netherlands, the Palatinate, France, and later Massachusetts. Zwingli was at Zurich; Luther at Wittenberg.
Read the full facts →The Reformation was a 16th-century religious movement that split Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant branches. It began with Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church in 1517 and produced a reorganisation of European religion, politics, and culture that has lasted to the present.
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