REFORMATION IN EUROPE

Reformation in Europe

Reformation in Europe

Introduction

What today goes by the name of Calvinism is a Christian evangelical movement emerged in the sixteenth century in the Protestant Reformation as a result of the work and preaching of John Calvin. The churches that follow the Calvinist doctrine often called Reformed churches, although the term sometimes used to denote the set of the largest churches Protestant.

The areas where the EU has had the greatest spread of Calvinism are Switzerland (with Geneva and Zurich as the most foremost centers), to France (where, however, could not prevail), the ' Netherlands, the Scotland and some principalities ...