John Calvin - John Calvin John Calvin (July 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564) founded Calvinism, a form of Protestant Christianity, during the Protestant Reformation. In France, the 16th and 17th century followers of Calvinism were referred to as Huguenots. He was born Jean Cauvin in Noyon, Picardie, France. Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses, in 1517, when Calvin was 8. Calvin's father, an attorney, sent him to the University of Paris to study humanities and law. By 1532, he was a Doctor of Law at Orléans. His first published work was a commentary on the Roman philosopher Seneca. In 1536 he settled in Geneva, halted in the path of an intended journey to Basel by the personal persuasion of the reformer William Farel. He died in Geneva. Writings.
John Knox - John Knox Neither the place nor the date of the birth of John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer, is settled beyond dispute; but the weightiest considerations favour Giffordgate, a suburb of the town of Haddington (16 m. e. of Edinburgh) as the place, and 1513 or 1514 as the year. He died at Edinburgh on November 24, 1572. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life 2 Conversion to Protestantism 3 Ministry at St. Andrews 4 Confinement in the French Galleys Early life His father was William Knox, of fair, though not distinguished, descent, who fought at the Battle of Flodden, and had his home in the county of Haddington. His mother's name was Sinclair. He received the elements of a liberal education in Haddington, which possessed.
John W. Davis - John W. Davis John William Davis (April 13, 1873 - March 24, 1955) was an American politican. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1924. He lost to Republican candidate Calvin Coolidge. (See U.S. presidential election, 1924) Davis was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913. He served as United States Solicitor General from 1913 to 1918 and as ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1921. He was also a constitutional lawyer. Davis argued 140 cases before the United States Supreme Court, more than anyone had argued to that time, including a defense of the separate but equal doctrine in Brown v. Board of Education..
John Hooper - John Hooper John Hooper (died February 9, 1555) was an English churchman, Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester and a Marian martyr. He was born in Somerset about the end of the 15th century and graduated BA. at Oxford in 1519. He is said to have then entered the Cistercian monastery at Gloucester but in 1538 a John Hooper appears among the names of the Black Friars at Gloucester and also among the White Friars at Bristol who surrendered their houses to the king. A John Hooper was likewise canon of Wormesley Priory in Herefordshire; but identification of any of these with the future bishop is doubtful. The Greyfriars' Chronicle says that Hooper was "sometime a white monk"; and in the sentence pronounced against him by Stephen.
Calvinism - Calvinism Calvinism is named after John Calvin, who exerted international influence on the development of the doctrine of the Protestant Reformation, beginning at the age of 25, when he started work on his first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1534 (published 1536). This work, which underwent a number of revisions in his lifetime, plus a number of polemical and pastoral works and a massive collection of commentaries on the Bible are the source of Calvin's ongoing personal influence on Protestantism. Calvinism marks the second phase of the Protestant Reformation, when evangelical churches began to form following Luther's excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church. In this sense, Calvinism was originally a Lutheran movement. Calvin himself signed the Lutheran Augsburg confession in 1540. On the other hand, Calvin's.
Calvin and Hobbes - Calvin and Hobbes Calvin and Hobbes is a popular comic strip written by Bill Watterson. The strip is based on Calvin, a 6 year old boy, and his tiger, Hobbes. The comic strip changed the way Americans viewed the proverbial face of comic strips. Through witty humor and truly hilarious observations, Watterson showed the world that comics can be intuitive and intellectual, yet still funny. First syndicated in 1985, Calvin and Hobbes was carried by over 2,400 newspapers. Almost 23 million Calvin and Hobbes books have been printed. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The premise 2 Legacy 2.1 Characters 2.2 Calvin's Alter-Egos 2.3 The Wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes 2.4 G R O S S 2.5 The Transmogrifier 2.6 Calvin's Snowmen 2.7 Calvin's Wagon and Sled.
Calvin Coolidge - Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge Order: 30th President Term of Office: August 3, 1923 - March 4, 1929 Followed: Warren G. Harding Succeeded by: Herbert Hoover Date of Birth Thursday, July 4, 1872 Place of Birth: Plymouth, Vermont Date of Death: Tuesday, January 5, 1933 Place of Death: Northampton, Massachusetts First Lady: Grace Anna Goodhue Profession: lawyer Political Party: Republican Vice President: Charles G. Dawes John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 - January 5, 1933) was the twenty-ninth (1921-1923) Vice President and the thirtieth (1923-1929) President of the United States, succeeding to that office upon the death of Warren Harding. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Supreme Court appointments 3 Related articles 4.
Predestination (Calvinism) - have to become of every individual of mankind. For they are not all created with a similar destiny; but eternal life is foreordained for some, and eternal damnation for others. -- John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion The Westminster Confession of Faith is just as blunt, and expands the issue at length in Chapter III: 3. By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life; and others foreordained to everlasting death. And yet, what Calvinists are quite willing to confess among themselves, they sometimes are unwilling to say as boldly to others, or to allow others to attribute to them. Why is this? Is the doctrine of predestination according to Calvinism that, God foreordains some to eternal life, and.
Vermont - civil unions, an institution which grants same-sex couples nearly all the rights and privileges of marriage. In Baker v. Vermont (1999) the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that, under the Constitution of Vermont, the State of Vermont must either allow homosexual couples to marry, or provide a separate but equal status for them. The State legislature chose the second option by creating the institution of civil union; the bill, which was supported by about half of the state's voters, was passed by the legislature, and signed into law by Governor Howard Dean. Some Vermonters voiced their displeasure out loud and in the following state senate elections. Although Vermont boasts two Senate seats and a relatively small population, attempts by out-of-state candidates (so called "carpetbaggers") to win a seat in Vermont have often.
January 5 - with the United Kingdom. 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. 1914 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States. 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. 1940 - FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. 1944 - The London Daily Mail becomes.
Jacobus Arminius - Danaeus, Johannes Drusius, Guillaume Feuguereius, and Johann Kolmann. Kolmann believed and taught that high Calvinism made God both a tyrant and an executioner. Under the influence of these men, Arminius studied with success and had seeds planted that would begin to develop into a theology that would later compete with the dominant Reformed theology of John Calvin. Arminius began studying under Theodore Beza at Geneva in 1582. He was called to pastor at Amsterdam and was ordained in 1588. He was reputed to be a good preacher and faithful pastor. In 1590 he married Lijsbet Reael. Arminius is best known as the founder of the anti-Calvinistic school in Reformed theology, and thereby lent his name to the antithetical theology to Calvinism - Arminianism. In attempting to defend Calvinistic predestination against the.
Vice President of the United States - partisan manner, except in the case of breaking tie votes. Role of the Vice President The formal powers and role of the Vice President with a healthy, functioning President are limited to the Presidency of the Senate, including a casting vote in the event of a deadlock. This was important in the first half of 2001, as the Senators were divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats and thus Dick Cheney's casting vote gave the Republicans the Senate majority. Their other functions are as a spokesperson for the administration's policy, as an adviser to the President, and as a symbol of American concern or support. Their influence in this role depends almost entirely on the characteristics of the particular administration. Cheney, for instance, is widely regarded as one of George W. Bush's.
Johannes Oecolampadius - of Oecolampadius and his friends, the authorities of Basel began to see the need for reformation. At last Oecolampadius was able to refrain from some practices he believed to be superstitious. Basel was slow to accept the Reformation; the news of the Peasants' War and the inroads of Anabaptists prevented progress; but by 1525, it seemed as if the authorities were resolved to listen to schemes for restoring the purity of worship and teaching. In the midst of these hopes and difficulties Oecolampadius married, in the beginning of 1528, Wilibrandis Rosenblatt, the widow of Ludwig Keller, who proved a suitable wife. After his death she married Wolfgang Fabricius Capito, and, when Capito died, Martin Bucer. She died in 1564. In January 1528 Oecolampadius and Zwingli took part in the disputation at.
July 10 - States. 1890 - Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C) which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003). 1925 - The official news agency of the Soviet Union called the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. 1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. 1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world. 1940 - World War II: Vichy France government established. 1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British.
July 4 - state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1960 - With the admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1966 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act will go into effect next year. 1976 - Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing most passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by pro-Palestinian hijackers. 1987 - In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment. 1997 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. 2002 - A.
Juan de Valdes - Del Benefizio di Gesii Cristo Crocefisso, revised by Flaminio (reprinted by Dr Babington, Cambridge, 1855). The suggestion that Valdés was unsound on the Trinity was first made in 1567 by the Transylvanian bishop, Francis David; it has been adopted by Sand (1684), Wallace (1850) and other anti-Trinitarian writers, and is countenanced by Bayle. To this view some colour is given by isolated expressions in his writings, and by the subsequent course of Ochino (whose heterodox repute rests, however, on the insight with which he presented objections). Valdes never treats of the Trinity (even when commenting on Matt, xxviii. 19), reserving it (in his Latte Spirituale) as a topic for advanced Christians; yet he explicitly affirms the consubstantiality of the Son, whom he unites in doxologies with the Father and the Holy.
Iconoclasm - the destruction of these images in 730. The Iconoclastic Controversy was fueled by the refusal of many Christians resident outside the Byzantine Empire, including many Christians living in the Islamic Caliphate to accept the emperor's theological arguments. St. John of Damascus was one of the most prominent of these. Ironically, Christians living under Muslim rule at this time had more freedom to write in defense of icons than did those living in the Byzantine Empire. Leo was able to promulgate his policy because of his personal popularity and military success - he was credited with saving Constantinople from an Arab siege in 717-718 and then sustaining the Empire through annual warfare. Leo III's son, Constantine V (reigned 741-775) was challenged at once by a general who used Iconophile ("Icon-favoring") propaganda, but.
If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause - song to those who make half-hearted attempts at social change, and who protest the "big" problems but are not willing to make changes in their own lives to respect what they claim is right for all of society. Personnel: Vocals: Calvin Simon, George Clinton, Bernie Worrell, Garry Shider, Dr. Music (Diane Brooks, Steve Kennedy) Guitar: Garry Shider Bass: Prakash John Keyboards: Bernie Worrell Drums: Ty Lampkin David Van De Pitte - arranged steel and string guitar.
Institutes of the Christian Religion - of the Christian Religion Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Reformed theology. It forms the basis of Presbyterian and Reformed churches' theology, usually called Calvinism..
Harrowing of Hell - the early church. The Old Testament affirms that Job and other righteous men went to Sheol when they died, as did David and the other psalmists. The doctrine of the Harrowing of Hell explained how these righteous people who lived before the Crucifixion were redeemed. St Melito of Sardis and St Ambrose both wrote of the Harrowing of Hell. Ambrose explains that the argument that holds that Christ could not have suffered in Hell also implies that Christ could not have suffered on the Cross. For St John Chrysostom, the harrowing of Hell was a paradox that was an essential part of the Christian mystery of faith: "Hell took a body, and discovered God; it took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took what it saw, and was overcome by what it.
