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Ján Kalvín, fr. Jean Calvin, vlastným menom Jehan Cauvin bol francúzsky teológ, spoluzakladateľ protestantizmu , predstaviteľ reformácie vo Francúzsku.

Kalvín bol pôvodne katolík, študoval teológiu, filozofiu a právo na univerzitách v Paríži, Oxforde a v Bourges. Pripojil sa k protestantom po zrelej úvahe roku 1533 a svoju náboženskú premenu dlho utajoval. Nadchla ho jasnosť a prísnosť reformácie, ktorá ho aj inšpirovala k písaniu.

Jeho hlavné dielo „Učenie kresťanského náboženstva“ vyšlo najprv v latinčine a potom roku 1541 vo francúzštine.

Centrom jeho reformačných myšlienok bola Ženeva, z ktorej urobil útočisko európskych protestantov. Kalvín presadzoval prísnu podobu protestantizmu, ktorá sa opierala o myšlienku predestinácie – človek má svoj osud predpísaný a už dopredu je jasné, či pôjde do neba, alebo nie, ale má sa správať po celý život tak, akoby jeho duša mala byť spasená. Kalvinizmus podporovala aj buržoázia.

Kalvín upravil štruktúru bohoslužby – mala pozostávať z kázne, modlitby a spevu žalmov. Dbal na prísnu morálku a dodržiavanie Svätého písma. Taktiež bol prísny asketista. Odmietal svetskú kultúru, napr. jeho chrám v Ženeve je bez estetiky, nenájdete tam žiadnu maľovku ani žiadne typické znaky chrámu.

Kalvinizmus bol mimoriadne netolerantným náboženstvom voči iným reformám – nekalvinisti boli prenasledovaní.

Kalvinisti sa v minulosti v rôznych krajinách nazývali rôzne. Vo Francúzsku to boli hugenoti, v Anglicku zas puritáni. Wikipedia  

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“It is certain that no man can embrace the grace of the Gospel without retaking himself from the errors of his former life into the right path, and making it his whole study to practice repentance.”

John Calvin kniha Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 3, Chapter 3, Section 1, p. 497
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”

Referring to (Isaiah 49:23) http://bible.crosswalk.com/OnlineStudyBible/bible.cgi?section=1&word=nursing%20AND%20QUEENS&version=kjv in a letter to William Cecil (May 1559), in Bonnet (1980), op. cit., p. 212; also in Hastings Robinson, ed., The Zurich letters: Comprising the Correspondence of several English Bishops and others with some of the Helvetian reformers, during the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC02160004&id=CP4QAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PR17&lpg=RA2-PR17&dq=%22zurich+letters%22#PPP16,M1, (Second Series. A.D. 1558-1602), Cambridge (England): University Press, 1845, p. 35.

“To this day we cannot enjoy the blessing brought to us in Christ without thinking at the same time of that which God gave as adornment and honour to Mary, in willing her to be the mother of his only-begotten Son.”

New Testament Commentaries, John 1.32; as quoted in Thomas F. Torrance, "A Harmony of Matthew, Mark and Luke” https://books.google.com/books/about/A_harmony_of_the_Gospels_Matthew_Mark_an.html?id=0diPvgAACAAJ (St. Andrew's Press, Edinburgh, 1972), p.32. and "The Gospel of St. John: The Story of the Son of God" https://books.google.com/books?isbn=113704120X
St John
Varianta: And at this day, the blessedness brought to us by Christ cannot be the subject of our praise, without reminding us, at the same time, of the distinguished honor which God was pleased to bestow on Mary, in making her the mother of his Only Begotten Son.

“Lastly, let each of us consider how far he is bound in duty to others, and in good faith pay what we owe. In the same way, let the people pay all due honour to their rulers, submit patiently to their authority, obey their laws and orders, and decline nothing which they can bear without sacrificing the favour of God. Let rulers, again, take due charge of their people, preserve the public peace, protect the good, curb the bad, and conduct themselves throughout as those who must render an account of their office to God, the Judge of all… Let the aged also, by their prudence and their experience, (in which they are far superior,) guide the feebleness of youth, not assailing them with harsh and clamorous invectives but tempering strictness with ease and affability. Let servants show themselves diligent and respectful in obeying their masters, and this not with eye-service, but from the heart, as the servants of God. Let masters also not be stern and disobliging to their servants, nor harass them with excessive asperity, nor treat them with insult, but rather let them acknowledge them as brethren and fellow-servants of our heavenly Master, whom, therefore, they are bound to treat with mutual love and kindness. Let every one, I say, thus consider what in his own place and order he owes to his neighbours, and pay what he owes. Moreover, we must always have a reference to the Lawgiver, and so remember that the law requiring us to promote and defend the interest and convenience of our fellow-men, applies equally to our minds and our hands.”

John Calvin kniha Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book II Chapter 8. Spurgeon.org. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

“The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge.”

Re Matthew 27:24 (Torrance 1972 edition).
Harmony of Matthew, Mark, Luke

“I do not doubt that there has been some ignorance in their having reproved this mode of speech, — that the Virgin Mary is the Mother of God … I cannot dissemble that it is found to be a bad practice ordinarily to adopt this title in speaking of this Virgin: and, for my part, I cannot consider such language as good, proper, or suitable… for to say, the Mother of God for the Virgin Mary, can only serve to harden the ignorant in their superstitions.”

Calvin to the Foreigners’ Church in London, 1552-10-27, in George Cornelius Gorham, Gleanings of a few scattered ears, during the period of Reformation in England and of the times immediately succeeding : A.D. 1533 to A.D. 1588 http://books.google.com/books?vid=0bbTMcT6wXFWRHGP&id=esICAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22george+cornelius+gorham%22 (London: Bell and Daldy, 1857), p. 285.

“Faith has no less need of the word than the fruit of a tree has of a living root; because, as David testifies, none can hope in God but those who know his name”

John Calvin kniha Institutes of the Christian Religion

Psalm 9:10
Book 3, Chapter 2, Section 31, p. 482
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

“Moreover, in order that we may be aroused and exhorted all the more to carry this out, Scripture makes known that there are not one, not two, nor a few foes, but great armies, which wage war against us. For Mary Magdalene is said to have been freed from seven demons by which she was possessed [Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2], and Christ bears witness that usually after a demon has once been cast out, if you make room for him again, he will take with him seven spirits more wicked than he and return to his empty possession [Matt. 12:43-45]. Indeed, a whole legion is said to have assailed one man [Luke 8:30]. We are therefore taught by these examples that we have to wage war against an infinite number of enemies, lest, despising their fewness, we should be too remiss to give battle, or, thinking that we are sometimes afforded some respite, we should yield to idleness.
But the frequent mention of Satan or the devil in the singular denotes the empire of wickness opposed to the Kingdom of Righteousness. For as the church and fellowship of the saints has Christ as Head, so the faction of the impious and impiety itself are depicted for us together with their prince who holds supreme sway over them. For this reason, it was said: "Depart, …you cursed, into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels"”

John Calvin kniha Institutes of the Christian Religion

Matt. 25:41
“Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion” https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1611644453 Book 1, ch.14, sect. 14, edited by John T. McNeill pp.173-174.
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

““The practice of employing images as ornaments and memorials to decorate the temple of the Lord is in a most especial manner approved by the Word of God himself. Moses was commanded to place two cherubim upon the ark, and to set up a brazen figure of the fiery serpent, that those of the murmuring Israelites who had been bitten might recover from the poison of their wounds by looking on the image. In the description of Solomon's temple, we read of that prince, not only that he made in the oracle two cherubim of olive tree, of ten 83 Vide supra, p. 17. 101 cubits in height, but that ‘all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings.’ “In the first book of Paralipomenon (Chronicles) we observe that when David imposed his injunction upon Solomon to realise his intention of building a house to the Lord, he delivered to him a description of the porch and temple, and concluded by thus assuring him: ‘All these things came to me written by the hand of the Lord, that I may understand the works of the pattern.’ “The isolated fact that images were not only directed by the Almighty God to be placed in the Mosaic tabernacle, and in the more sumptuous temple of Jerusalem, but that [132] he himself exhibited the pattern of them, will be alone sufficient to authorise the practice of the Catholic Church in regard to a similar observance.”—(Hierurgia, p. 371.) All this may be briefly answered. There was no representation of the Jewish patriarchs or saints either in the tabernacle or in the temple of Solomon, as is the case with the Christian saints in the Roman Catholic and Græco-Russian Churches; and the brazen serpent, to which the author alludes, was broken into pieces by order of King Hezekiah as soon as the Israelites began to worship it.”

Zdroj: A Treatise of Relics (1543), pp. 100-101