Calvin, John: Involvement in Controversies

Calvin wrote extensively on all theological and practical matters. He was involved in many controversies. Among them were his violent opposition to the Anabaptists; his disagreement with the Lutherans over the Lord's Supper, which resulted in the separation of the Evangelical Church into Lutheran and Reformed; and his condemnation of the anti-Trinitarian views of Michael Servetus, which ended in the notorious trial and burning of Servetus in 1553.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Importance of Calvinism
• Involvement in Controversies
• Work in Geneva
• Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Early Life
• Bibliography

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