John Calvin

The first fact about John Calvin in a public catalog is a church order and a heresy burning, not a marble of systematic theology. The Meeter Center at https://calvin.edu/meeter-center (opens in a new tab) holds a specialist collection. The International Museum of the Reformation at https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/ (opens in a new tab) presents Geneva’s Reformation as a public museum. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin (opens in a new tab) dates the offices. From 1542 that court sat. On 27 October 1553 Michael Servetus was burned at Champel: Britannica’s Servetus page at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Servetus (opens in a new tab) and the Genevan archival heading independently print a civic sentence. Calvin denounced, testified, and asked for the sword; the Small Council sentenced. Shared attribution is the honest type. Never affiliated_with Servetus. May 1555 ended the Perrin opposition inside the councils. Offsets are also URLs. CCEL’s Institutes at https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes (opens in a new tab) carry the 1536 handbook as later English. The University of Geneva at https://www.unige.ch/en/ (opens in a new tab) is a successor heading of the 1559 Academy, first rector Théodore de Bèze. Farel’s 1536 invitation and the 1538 expulsion are dated civic-church acts. Strasbourg under Bucer is teaching in exile. What the score must not say: that Calvin lit the Champel pyre as magistrate; that 1559 cancels 1553; that a later Presbyterian polity is this one city’s minute; that Luther’s 1525 pamphlet is Geneva. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1536, 1538, 1541, 1553, and 1559; medium on unique consistory case counts; low on later confessional welfare series. Related people are Farel, Beza, Bucer, and Luther as a prior evangelical stream — plus Servetus only as a conflict counterpart. 1536 is a book. 1541 is an ordinance. 1553 is a death. 1559 is a college. Keep them unmerged. Later museum rooms are evidence, not additional acts. The Cambridge Companion at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-john-calvin/ (opens in a new tab) independently frames consistory and 1555. A reader checking this Person should open Meeter Center, MIR, AEG, the Institutes carrier, Servetus as Britannica prints him, and the 1559 Academy heading, then stop. Posthumous museums, university names, and later confessional reception are evidence, not additional acts. A consistory minute is still not a college. A college is still not Champel. Shared attribution on 1553 remains the honest line. Later museum rooms, consistory editions, and encyclopedia pages remain evidence, not additional lifetime acts. Shared work with Farel, Beza, Bucer, and unnamed elders remains named. He did not sit as the Small Council. Magistrates signed sentences. Shared work remains named.