Geburtstag: 10. Juli 1509
Todesdatum: 27. Mai 1564
Andere Namen: جان کالون
Johannes Calvin war ein Reformator französischer Abstammung und Begründer des Calvinismus. Er gilt als Vertreter einer kerygmatischen Theologie.
— John Calvin
Epistles to the Corinthians, Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
— John Calvin, buch Institutes of the Christian Religion
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 72
— John Calvin, buch Institutes of the Christian Religion
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559), Context: Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.
Book 1 Chapter 1, p. 44
