John Calvin

John Calvin
Although John Calvin never took one step in America, he had a huge influence on the way we live. Mainly John Calvin was known as a French reformer and theologian. He was born in an upper middle-class family in France (1509-1564). John Calvin grew up during the time that Protestantism was being established. Educated at the University of Paris, he was trained in law and humanities. He fell in with a circle of French humanists who read with great interest the writings of Luther.1532 Calvin an experienced what some call "sudden conversion". Converted to Christianity in his early t…