Calvinists

He commits himself to claiming that, setting aside the Quakers, the Calvinists are the most enthusiastic of the English sectaries; his reason is not psychological but social: their church structure involves the least dependence on priests.

On a Question about Superstition and Enthusiasm in Hume 2005

He commits himself to claiming that, setting aside the Quakers, the Calvinists are the most enthusiastic of the English sectaries; his reason is not psychological but social: their church structure involves the least dependence on priests.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

However the fact is to be explained it is true that the Calvinists were the only fighting Protestants.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

The Protestant sects were divided into two hostile camps, known as Calvinists and Arminians.

Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler Butler, Pardee, 1816-1888 1889

Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and their immediate helpers were all thorough-going "Calvinists," and the greatest spiritual revival of all time was brought about under their influence.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

The Waldensians also might be mentioned for they were in a sense "Calvinists" before the Reformation, one of their tenets being that of Predestination.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

It was not wonderful that the "Calvinists," according to an unfriendly historian, preached of the late monarch's fate as miraculous, and magnified it to their advantage; [729] for they saw in it an interposition of the Almighty in their behalf, as signal as any illustrating the Jewish annals.

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

Mosheim regarded the Antinomians as a rigid kind of Calvinists who, distorting the doctrines of absolute decrees, drew from it conclusions dangerous to religion and morals.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

"Whatever the cause," says Froude, "the Calvinists were the only fighting Protestants.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

"Indeed, some of today's enthusiasts imply that non-Calvinists may actually not be Christians." that I understood the roots of this use of Christian in a "special sense".

Apollo's Daughter :: Define "Christian" in the context of "Nation" apollosdtr 2009