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Article: The Scottish reformers: Calvin and Knox.(CALVIN)(John Calvin and John Knox)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- April 1, 2009
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How did one Frenchman, John Calvin, who died basically a refugee in a foreign city and was buried in an unmarked grave, come to have his name and thought so closely associated with Scotland? For generations, Scottish Presbyterianism has been seen as Calvinist or Calvinian. The origins of this association have centered at the popular level around John Knox's great praise of John Calvin's work in Geneva in those now virtually immortal words: "The most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the Apostles." Knox's time in Geneva was certainly of paramount importance for shaping his vision for reformation in ...