Definition of Jean Caulvin

1. Noun. Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Caulvin

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean Anouilh
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Arp
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin (current term)
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Harlow
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jean Laffite
Jean Lafitte
Jean Louis Charles Garnier

Literary usage of Jean Caulvin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1922)
"... and the following year the theologian .lohn Calvin (properly Jean Caulvin or Chauvin), a refugee from Paris, who was born at Noyon in Picardy in 1501), ..."

2. The World's History: A Survey of Man's Record by Hans Ferdinand Helmolt (1903)
"... real head in John Calvin (Jean Caulvin), who, leaning more on Zwingli than on Luther, began a work which was in many respects independent (circa 1530). ..."

3. Histoire de la réformation de la Suisse by Abraham Ruchat (1836)
"Jean Caulvin, qui par un léger changement de nom, suivant l'usage des savans de son siècle, voulut être appelé Calvin, naquit le 10 juillet de l'an 1509, ..."

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