John Calvin was a Frenchman compelled to leave France because of his religious beliefs. He too was a religious reformer of the Catholic Church and agreed with many of Luther’s ideas. He set up practice in Geneva, Switzerland and quickly became their leader. He wrote a guidebook on Christianity, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in 1536 which was later known as the Geneva Bible. Calvin basically rewrote Christianity as to the way he thought it was before Medieval Catholicism. His book gave explanations of Bible passages, and he set Psalms to music. One major difference between Calvin and Luther was the idea of predestination - that God has already determined our fate. With the invention of the printing press, Calvin’s ideas were disseminated
