... was large and had prospered throughout Scotland, Switzerland, parts of England, and later in North America. Calvinism was established by another reformer named John Calvin. Calvin's education had played a large part of the spread and increased power of the Calvinist. Calvin, with his great knowledge, had made his own Protestant theology which later he published in The Institutes of the Christian Religion. This book influenced the spread of Calvinism because it contained a written theology that could later ... be taught to newer Calvinists. Calvin later establishes a theocracy in Geneva ...

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... defeated. John Calvin was another reformer who set up another theocracy similar to Zwingli's in the Swiss city Geneva. In 1536 he published his theology in The Institutes of the Christian Religion, which influenced religious reformers in Europe and eventually North America. Calvin established a way of life in his city that followed a strict set of rules that earned them the title "City of God." Visitors to Geneva helped spread Calvinism, and the people of the Netherlands and ... Scotland became some of Calvin's most avid supporters. Henry VIII was a great influence on the reformation. W...

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