Namesake of the movement, French reformer John Calvin, embraced Protestant beliefs in the late 1520s or early 1530s, as the earliest notions of later Reformed Church tradition were already espoused by Huldrych Zwingli.
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20 Facts About Reformed Church
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The most important Reformed Church theologians include Calvin, Zwingli, Martin Bucer, William Farel, Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Theodore Beza, and John Knox.
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Contemporary Reformed Church theologians include Albert Mohler, John MacArthur, Tim Keller, John Piper, Joel Beeke, and Michael Horton.
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The document demonstrates the diversity as well as unity in early Reformed Church theology, giving it a stability that enabled it to spread rapidly throughout Europe.
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Traditionally, Reformed theologians have followed the medieval tradition going back to before the early church councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon on the doctrine of the Trinity.
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Reformed Church Christians have especially emphasized that Christ truly became human so that people could be saved.
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Some contemporary Reformed Church theologians have moved away from the traditional language of one person in two natures, viewing it as unintelligible to contemporary people.
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Many, but not all, Reformed Church theologians continue to make use of the threefold office as a framework because of its emphasis on the connection of Christ's work to Israel.
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Reformed Church theologians emphasize that this sinfulness affects all of a person's nature, including their will.
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Reformed Church theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will.
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Reformed Church Christians believe that God predestined some people to be saved and others were predestined to eternal damnation.
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Congregational churches are a part of the Reformed tradition founded under the influence of New England Puritanism.
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Reformed Church reinterpreted some of these passages, and suggested that others of them had been rendered irrelevant by changed conditions.
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Reformed Church dismissed the argument that it is wrong to charge interest for money because money itself is barren.
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Reformed Church said that the walls and the roof of a house are barren, too, but it is permissible to charge someone for allowing him to use them.
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Pierre Bayle, a Reformed Church Frenchman, felt safer in the Netherlands than in his home country.
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Reformed Church was the first prominent philosopher who demanded tolerance for atheists.
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Reformed Church's political thought aimed to safeguard the rights and freedoms of ordinary men and women.
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