John Calvin-Life,Legacy and Theology

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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY - PROF. M. M. NINAN In order to shame the king and the ecclesiastical authorities out of their persecuting principles, he published his first work, the two books of Seneca "De Clementia," (On Mercy) with a Commentary, in which he freely expressed his opinions. In this work, the dedication of which to the abbot of St. Eloi is dated from Paris on the 4th of April, 1532, he first assumed the name of Calvinus. 1533 - 1534 ALL SAINTS DAY, AND THE AFFAIR OF THE PLACARDS After uneventful trips to Orléans and his hometown of Noyon, Calvin returned to Paris in October 1533. During this time, tensions rose at the Collège Royal (later to become the Collège de France) between the humanists/reformers and the conservative senior faculty members. One of the reformers, Nicolas Cop, was rector of the university. Nicolas Cop ( 1501- 1540), rector of the University of Paris in late 1533, from 10 October 1533, was a Swiss Protestant Reformer and friend of John Calvin. Nicolas Cop and his brother Michel Cop, sons of the king's physician, had become Calvin's friends during their shared time at the Collège de Montaigu. In January 1535, Calvin joined Cop in Basel, a city under the enduring influence of the late reformer Johannes Oecolampadius. John Calvin was a law student at the University of Orléans when he first joined the cause of the Reformation. He became active in a circle of Frenchmen who shared this interest,which included Nicolas Cop, the Rector of the University of Paris. It was the custom of the university for the Rector to deliver an inaugural address in Latin on All Saints’ Day in one of the churches of Paris. On All Saints Day, November 1, 1533, Nicholas Cop stood before the University of Paris and delivered an address that had been written by John Calvin in the Mathurins’ church which essentially explained the the need for reform and renewal in the Roman Catholic Church and the principles of reformation. 16
JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY - PROF. M. M. NINAN Johannes Oecolampadius (also Œcolampadius, in German also Oekolampadius, Oekolampad; 1482 – 24 November 1531) was a German Protestant reformer in the Reformed tradition from the Electoral Palatinate. He was the leader of the Protestant faction in the Baden Disputation of 1526, and he was one of the founders of Protestant theology, along with Erasmus, Zwingli, Luther and Martin Bucer. (http://cw.routledge.com/ref/protestantism/calvin.pdf) The address provoked a strong reaction from the faculty, who denounced it as heretical. Cop was denounced to the parliament of Paris, who sent their officers to apprehend him. A timely notice from a friend enabled him to escape to Basle, his native town. The storm now fell upon Calvin, whose share in the sermon seems to have got wind. Jean Morin, the lieutenant of police, repaired to his lodgings for the purpose of seizing him; but Calvin had also received a private warning, and saved himself by flight. The manner of his escape is differently narrated. According to some writers, he let himself down from his window by means of his sheets into the Rue des Bernardins, he sought the house of a vine-dresser, whom he knew; and, putting on the man's frock left the city. That was followed in 1534 by another attack on the Catholic Church known as the “Affair of the Placards,” . The Affair of the Placards (French: Affaire des Placards) was an incident in which anti-Catholic posters appeared in public places in Paris and in four major provincial cities: Blois, Rouen, Tours and Orléans, overnight during 17 October 1534. Upon which the Governement took serious action. This time Calvin and Nicholas Cop had to flee from the country. 17
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