I.   Introduction

II.  Biographical sketch: John Calvin (1509-1564)

  a.   Early life and education

  b.   Paris and the Commentary on Seneca’s Treatise on Clemency

  c.   1534 – Nicholas Cop

  d.   Exile and the Institutes of the Christian Religion

III.  Calvinist theology

   a.  The basic ideas

                      i.  Core

                     ii.  Knowledge

                    iii.  The Elect

   b.  Theology in practice: the outward church

                      i.  The “invisible church”

                     ii.  The “outward church”

                    iii.  The sacraments

  1.  The Lord’s Supper

IV.   Calvin and the Reformation in Geneva

   a.   Geneva in 1536

   b.   Guillaum Farel (1489-1565)

   c.   Calvin in Geneva

                      i.   Articles Concerning the Government of the Church

  1.   discipline

                     ii.   Confession of Faith and a Catechism

  1.   confession

   d.   A second exile: Strausburg and Martin Bucer (1491-1551)

   e.   The return to Geneva