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A 3 page overview of the accomplishment of these two religious leaders. Calvin is credited with restructuring Protestantism and Loyola with the founding of the Jesuits. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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John Calvin is one of the more notable religious figures of the sixteenth century. Calvin, like many in his time, was persecuted for his religion.
As a consequence of that persecution he fled Noyan (Picardy) and took refuge in Basel (LEPG.org, 2006). It was while there that he published "The Institutes of the Christian
Religion" (1536), a work that would have a profound effect on the development of Protestantism. Himself a recent covert to Protestantism, Calvin did not add anything to Protestant theology
but rather organized it and put it in a more logical and analytical format. Calvins restructured version of Protestantism resulted in a radical
new approach to religion. Calvins ideas ultimately affected millions of others. The Puritans, for example, were followers of Calvins teachings. The reverberations of those teachings thus reached
far beyond Scotland and into the Americas as well as the rest of the world (Kerr, 1994). Not only would Calvins theories ultimately shape the actions of the Puritans
themselves, they determine the way he and his followers interacted with others. To understand the full implications of Calvins transformation it is necessary
to recognize that prior to the 1500s most of northern Europe had been characterized by the Roman Catholic religion. This religion was rejected by many during this time period,
however, as people chose Protestantism over Catholicism. As a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years.
While Martin Luther inadvertently launched the Protestant Reformation, Calvin had the greatest long-lasting impact in regard to changes in European social thought and attitude and
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