Before I begin expounding on John Calvin’s theology, I would like to begin with Calvin’s beginnings. John Calvin was a prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation and the father of the theological system known as Calvinism. Martin Luther and Calvin are arguably the most significant architects of the Reformation. “If Luther sounded the trumpet for reform, Calvin orchestrated the score by which the Reformation became a part of Western civilization.” Calvin was born July 10, 1509, in Noyon, France. When he was 14, his father sent him to study theology at the University of Paris, which at that time was untouched by the Reformation in Germany and stepped in Medieval theology. Five years later when Calvin was 19 his father ran into
