Psychopannychia is prepared as a dated early tract against soul-sleep teaching
Around 1535 Calvin prepared Psychopannychia, a dated tract against the soul-sleep position. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
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Around 1535 Calvin prepared Psychopannychia, a dated tract against the soul-sleep position.
Context
Early tracts and Institutes share a decade. Meeter Center and Britannica independently place Psychopannychia among first works. Later collected editions are carriers.
John Calvin’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Conventional years are 1509–1564. Surviving public files are later museum pages, consistory editions, Meeter Center collections, and encyclopedias. Calvin did not typeset those later pages.
Why it matters
Education-access path. High confidence on the early tract; medium on exact first-print month.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
John Calvin
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
He wrote the tract. Later printers issued surviving editions.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactPsychopannychia is prepared as a dated early tract against soul-sleep teaching
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1535 · verified
An early dated doctrinal tract increased Reformed pedagogical print against soul-sleep claims.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — John CalvinEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin StudiesCalvin University / Calvin Theological Seminary · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
The Meeter Center and Britannica independently describe Psychopannychia as an early Calvin tract.
Established: Psychopannychia belongs to the mid-1530s opening. Not established: a unique conversion series from the tract.
John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. Psychopannychia is not the Basel Institutes. Keep 1535 off March 1536. Keep 1535 off March 1536.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorJohn Calvin
- contributed toFactPsychopannychia is prepared as a dated early tract against soul-sleep teaching
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Psychopannychia is prepared as a dated early tract against soul-sleep teaching. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-psychopannychia-1535
https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-psychopannychia-1535
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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