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To: SampleMan

Cranmer was a correspondant with Calvin, and I suspect their theologies were not that far apart. Calvin was rather indifferent to forms of church government or shapes of liturgy. He was willing to let Polish reformers keep their bishops, and his own “order of service” was a kind of stripped down mass. He even suggested a weekly Eucharist but went along with his Geneva friends. In many respects Calvin was not a Calvinist.


82 posted on 02/06/2013 1:16:15 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: RobbyS
In many respects Calvin was not a Calvinist.

Indeed. Given the Calvinist mantra (you should not have a priest interpret the Bible for you, but read it yourself), I was amused to look at the first Calvinist Bible printed and find that it is packed with interpretation of Scripture, printed in an outer margin.

93 posted on 02/06/2013 2:49:38 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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