John Calvin
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Calvin
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Protestant reformer whose theological authority and doctrine of predestination were contested by the emerging Arminian/Laudian school.
A school of theological students had arisen which rejected the authority of Calvin, and took up the principle advocated by Cranmer that the patristic writings afforded a key to the Edition:
One of the questions at issue was Calvin’s doctrine of predestination.