How Did Calvin Contribute To The Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age. The Renaissance was a really important turning point in Western thinking and cultural tradition. All of these changes focused on the idea of Humanism in which, people became less "God Centered" and more self centered. The Reformation, often referred to as the Protestant Reformation (from Latin reformatio, lit. "restoration, renewal"), was a schism from the Roman Catholic Church started by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli and other early Protestant

He was a law student at the University of Orléans when he first joined the cause of the Reformation. In 1536, he published the Institutes of the Christian Religion, an early attempt to standardize the theories of Protestantism. Calvin's religious teachings emphasized the sovereignty of the scriptures and divine predestination—a doctrine holding that God chooses those who will enter Heaven based on foreknowledge of their good deeds. Calvin used Protestant principles to establish a religious government; and in 1555, he was given absolute supremacy as leader in Geneva.As Martin Luther's successor as the preeminent Protestant theologian, Calvin was known for an intellectual, unemotional approach to faith that provided Protestantism's theological underpinnings, whereas Luther brought passion and popularity to his religious cause. Calvin allowed no art other than music, and even that couldn’t involve instruments. Under his rule, Geneva became the center of Protestantism, and sent out pastors to the rest of Europe, creating Presbyterianism in Scotland, the Puritan Movement in England and the Reformed Church in the Netherlands.Which lead him to be well