Calvinism

Theological approach to a Christian lifestyle named after John Calvin.

Term for a Reformation period (Christianity), more precisely for the one manifestation of Protestantism that leads back to Calvin. In the narrow sense of the word, it refers to the main forms of classical Calvinism, as in the 16th and 17th-century emerged, in a broader sense the continuous effect of Calvinist impulse.

Calvinism is not a denomination or religious confession, it rather became a broadly acting force of Protestantism, which has also helped to shape culture and society.

Calvinism deals mainly with the continuing engagement in the bible, on the different weighting of predestination and on the introduction of different philosophical views.

It differs from other Protestant Churches by realizing the formation of individual doctrines (Eucharist, predestination), constitutionally through his communal principle, lifeorientated by its aim, to realize the kingdom of God on earth, and by its pathos of the spiritual conquest of the world.

Calvin maintained relations with princes, regents and influential people of almost all countries in Europe.

He sent his assistants, provided with instructions and for the purpose of reporting, in each country where they were completing the buildup of municipalities: preaching the pure doctrine, abolition of the (Holy) Mass and other Catholic traditions and institutions.