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Hace 3 días · Reformed Christianity is often called Calvinism after John Calvin, influential reformer of Geneva. The term was first used by opposing Lutherans in the 1550s. Calvin did not approve of the use of this term, [3] and scholars have argued that use of the term is misleading, inaccurate, unhelpful, [4] [5] [6] [7] [2] and "inherently distortive."
Hace 2 días · Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders. [2] Though there are other Reformed churches that are structurally similar, the word Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups ...
Hace 1 día · The Presbyterian Church (USA) was established with the 1983 merger of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, whose churches were located in the Southern and border states, with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, whose congregations could be found in every state.
- 8,705 as of 2022
- June 10, 1983; 40 years ago
- 1,140,665 active members (2022)
- Louisville, Kentucky
Hace 5 días · My grandfather was a Calvinist Reformed minister, and my father is an immigrant from the Netherlands who served as an Elder in a Calvinist Reformed church. All throughout my life, I had heard that any prayerful communication with anyone other than “The Lord” was an idolatrous, abominable sin in the sight of God.
Hace 5 días · François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian and renowned defender of the Calvinistic (Reformed) orthodoxy represented by the Synod of Dort, and was one of the...
Hace 5 días · In-House Genealogy Resources. The roots of Calvin University, Theological Seminary, and the Christian Reformed Church of North America can be tied back to the secessionist movement from the Netherlands church in the mid-19th century. This movement, called the Afscheiding, created pockets of Dutch immigrant communities in west Michigan and Iowa.
Hace 4 días · Intriguingly, Law hints at potential continuity between the recidivists of the 1570s and 1580s in Gonville and Caius and the beginnings of the anti-Puritan reaction that would end in Arminianism and the Laudian reaction; it was William Barrett, a fellow of Caius, who preached the first major sermon denouncing Calvinist soteriology in Cambridge in 1595 (p. 186).
