# Psychopannychia is prepared as a dated early tract against soul-sleep teaching

Date: 1535

## The fact

Around 1535 [Calvin](/people/john-calvin) prepared Psychopannychia, a dated tract against the soul-sleep position. The instrument is that early doctrinal print cluster, not the 1536 Institutes as a twin.

It is one event.

## 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. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

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.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

The Meeter Center and Britannica independently describe Psychopannychia as an early Calvin tract.

Official or archival record: H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies (https://calvin.edu/meeter-center; Calvin University / Calvin Theological Seminary).

## Significance

Education-access path. High confidence on the early tract; medium on exact first-print month.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Psychopannychia belongs to the mid-1530s opening. Not established: a unique conversion series from the tract.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Calvin.

They are not a public rating.

John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Psychopannychia is not the Basel Institutes. Keep 1535 off March 1536. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of John Calvin.
John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Psychopannychia is not the Basel Institutes. Keep 1535 off March 1536. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of John Calvin.

## People

- John Calvin: https://factrail.ai/people/john-calvin

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin
- https://calvin.edu/meeter-center

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-psychopannychia-1535