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Calvinists

One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists.
Are they still around ? Do they prefer another name for their denomination, or was there a split of some sort ?
  

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[nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists. [/nq] In Switzerland and the Netherlands Calvinists often call themselves the Reformed Church. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

  • [nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists.
  • [/nq] In Switzerland and the Netherlands Calvinists often call themselves the Reformed Church.
  • Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists. Are they still around ?[/nq]
In Switzerland and the Netherlands Calvinists often call themselves the Reformed Church.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists. Are they still around ? Do they prefer another name for their denomination, or was there a split of some sort ?[/nq]
I am not the group policeman, but I am curious. What does this have to do with english usage?
I am not an expert on the topic of your question, but here is what I understand. Anglican and
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[nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists. Are they still around ? Do they prefer another name for their denomination, or was there a split of some sort ?[/nq]
There are many Calvinist denominations; most go by some variation of the name "Reformed" or "Presbyterian".

Chris Green
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[nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists. Are they still around ? Do they prefer another name for their denomination, or was there a split of some sort ?[/nq]
I was told recently that the Puritans in Massechusettes were Calvinists. I think most Puritans morphed into Congregationalists, according to the minister who lived across the street when I li
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[nq:2]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but ... denomination, or was there a split of some sort ?[/nq]
[nq:1]I am not an expert on the topic of your question, but here is what I understand. Anglican and Lutheran ... back to your question, many Presybyterians are Calvanists, but not all of them. Presbyterians have organizations, but Calvinists do not.[/nq]
Hmm. Being mar
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[nq:2]I am not an expert on the topic of your question, but here is what I understand. . . .[/nq]
[nq:1]Hmm. Being married to one, I can say that there are Calvinists who don't call themselves Presbyterians or anything else. Marti hails from the "Calvinist Rome", no less: Debrecen. Afaiui, Presbyterians **** and the Presbyterian Church is a Calvinist organisation.[/nq]
Well then, it is a g
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[nq:1]One hears about Anglicans and Lutherans all the time, but never about Calvinists. Are they still around ? Do they prefer another name for their denomination, or was there a split of some sort ?[/nq]
I hope not to offend anyone by saying that Baptists were Calvinists who were tempered by Arminianism. This Arminianism gives Baptists an Evangelical theology.

Mike Bandy
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[nq:1]I hope not to offend anyone by saying that Baptists were Calvinists who were tempered by Arminianism. This Arminianism gives Baptists an Evangelical theology.[/nq]
That you are dead wrong being, of course, beside the point. Baptists have never been Calvinists, although Cromwell did try to shield them from, maong others, the Calvinists.

Martin Ambuhl

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