Institutes of the Christian ReligionJohn Calvin
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- Lived
- 1509–1564
- Where
- Geneva, Switzerland
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John Calvin
The French reformer of Geneva and one of the most influential writers of the Reformation.
John Calvin trained as a lawyer in France before joining the Reformation and fleeing to Switzerland. He spent most of his working life as a pastor in Geneva, preaching several times a week and writing commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible.
His Institutes of the Christian Religion began as a short handbook in 1536. He kept revising and enlarging it for over twenty years until the final edition of 1559, an orderly tour of the whole Christian faith.