Back Calvinisme Afrikaans Reformierte Kirchen ALS Calvinismo AN كالفينية Arabic الكنيسه الكالفينيه ARZ Calvinismu AST Kalvinizm Azerbaijani Кальвінізм Byelorussian Кальвінізм BE-X-OLD Калвинизъм Bulgarian
Calvinism belongs to the Reformed tradition of Protestant Christianity. This tradition goes back to John Calvin and other theologians.
Important Calvinists from Europe include: Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Huldrych Zwingli, and from England, reformers Thomas Cranmer and John Jewel. Because John Calvin had great influence and played an important role in the confessional and ecclesiastical debates throughout the 17th century, the tradition generally became known as Calvinism.
Today, this term also means the doctrines and practices of the Reformed churches, of which Calvin was an early leader, and the system is perhaps best known for its doctrines of predestination and total depravity.