Frases de Juan Calvino
Juan Calvino
Fecha de nacimiento: 10. Julio 1509
Fecha de muerte: 27. Mayo 1564
Otros nombres: جان کالون
Juan Calvino , bautizado con el nombre de Jehan Cauvin, latinizado como Calvinus, fue un teólogo francés, considerado como uno de los padres de la Reforma Protestante. Más tarde, las doctrinas fundamentales de posteriores reformadores se identificarían con él, llamando a estas doctrinas «calvinismo». Particularmente los «cinco puntos del calvinismo» surgen de los discípulos de Juan Calvino como contraposición a las doctrinas de los discípulos de Jacobo Arminio.
Frases Juan Calvino
„Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.“
— John Calvin, libro Institutes of the Christian Religion
Fuente: Institutes of the Christian Religion
„True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.“
— John Calvin, libro Institutes of the Christian Religion
Book 1 Chapter 1, p. 44
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
Contexto: Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.
„There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.“
Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
Epistles to the Corinthians
„It is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.“
— John Calvin, libro Institutes of the Christian Religion
Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 72
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
.jpg){kind=link}