Calvinism: An overview of this world religion adressing many major points of the religion founded by John Calvin.

Calvinism is the Christian theology of John Calvin, a French church reformer. Calvinists, or so believers of Calvinism are called, believe that humans have no free will because of the Fall of Adam, but are already chosen to salvation or totally rejected by God eternally to Hell. Calvinists also believe that the Bible is the unique rule of faith, and that the Church should be separate from the state. Calvin said that thrift, industry, and …

…th century. Protestant groups were the first to accept the religion. In this period many Calvinistic movements were formed, the Huguenot movement being one of them. Most Calvinistic converters, however, were Protestants. Even today Calvinism is a mild threat to the Protestant religion. "[Calvinism] is not merely the hope of true religion in the world; it is true religion in the world--as far as true religion is in the world at all." -Benjamin B. Warfield