Calvin Theory: John Calvin's View On Echatology

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Hunter Obenschain
Dr. Defranz
May 4th 2014
Eschatology
John Calvin
John Calvin view on eschatology
John Calvin was a pastor and theologian during the Protestant Reformation. He was born on July 10th 1509 in Picardy France. John’s parents both died when he was a young age, which caused his four older brothers to take care of him when he was growing up. Calvin attended the College de la Marche in Paris where he was taught Latin, Greek and philosophy. In autumn of 1533 he had a sudden change of mind he described as brought by God where he got a taste of the knowledge of true godliness. This change in mind made him want to peruse theology and try to know as much about God as possible. Two and a half years later in March 1536 Calvin published his most famous book Institutes of the Christian Religion. This book was his first expression of his own theology and in it he writes about his view on eschatology.
Calvin believed that predestination is an essential doctrine that we should all understand. But he also believed we need to be careful what we say about predestination. It ...

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