Comparing The Work Of John Calvin And Genevan Society
Calvin and Genevan Society
John Calvin, the Protestant Reformer transformed Genevan society by facilitating
disciplined norms in which individuals lived in accordance and practiced the Word of God.
Calvin intended to produce honorable individuals who obey the Word of God in their daily lives
and thus promote an overall civil government body. Calvin focused on education in the
humanities, which he believed had its own power to enrich the whole life of Geneva as a city. He
introduced order in the Church after the revolutionary change from Roman Catholicism to
Protestantism and made the Church the central power of society. Calvin participated in the
personal Christian life of Geneva by providing guidance …show more content…
“How richly deserving of honour,” he
wrote, “are the liberal arts and sciences which polish man so as to give him dignity of the true
humanity.”1 He concentrated on educating the youth by establishing a college, for the purpose of
instructing them with a view to prepare them for the ministry and for civil government.2 All such
persons would be subject to ecclesiastical discipline like the ministers according to the highest
available standard of teaching.3 Calvin also wanted to establish classes for religious education
called “catechism” which would become a regular part of religious instruction. The obvious
intention of catechism is to make sure that every child in the community could in the end repeat
from memory a set or basic summaries of the faith.4 At noon on Sundays all citizens and
inhabitants shall take or send their children to catechism, which was a mandatory instruction and
who ever contravene this order shall be called before the company of elders or delegates.5
Through such principles of disciplined teaching, he managed to create a cooperative
John Calvin, the Protestant Reformer transformed Genevan society by facilitating
disciplined norms in which individuals lived in accordance and practiced the Word of God.
Calvin intended to produce honorable individuals who obey the Word of God in their daily lives
and thus promote an overall civil government body. Calvin focused on education in the
humanities, which he believed had its own power to enrich the whole life of Geneva as a city. He
introduced order in the Church after the revolutionary change from Roman Catholicism to
Protestantism and made the Church the central power of society. Calvin participated in the
personal Christian life of Geneva by providing guidance …show more content…
“How richly deserving of honour,” he
wrote, “are the liberal arts and sciences which polish man so as to give him dignity of the true
humanity.”1 He concentrated on educating the youth by establishing a college, for the purpose of
instructing them with a view to prepare them for the ministry and for civil government.2 All such
persons would be subject to ecclesiastical discipline like the ministers according to the highest
available standard of teaching.3 Calvin also wanted to establish classes for religious education
called “catechism” which would become a regular part of religious instruction. The obvious
intention of catechism is to make sure that every child in the community could in the end repeat
from memory a set or basic summaries of the faith.4 At noon on Sundays all citizens and
inhabitants shall take or send their children to catechism, which was a mandatory instruction and
who ever contravene this order shall be called before the company of elders or delegates.5
Through such principles of disciplined teaching, he managed to create a cooperative