John Calvin, the French Protestant who broke from the Roman Catholic Church was one of the greatest and most influential of Christian thinkers.
A true heir of Augustine and Paul, he succes.
The Protestants, of course, needed a clear statement for the reasons behind their break from the Pope, and Calvin became their leading and clearest spokesman.
He had to leave his native France to escape religious persecution, and spent the rest of his life living and working in Switzerland and Germany.
John Calvin, the French Protestant who broke from the Roman Catholic Church was one of the greatest and most influential of Christian thinkers