The paper explores, identifies and analyzes the concrete sociological indicators of original Calvinism as the specifically French Protestant Reformation, as well-established in the historical literature yet overlooked or downplayed in much of the sociology of (Calvinist) religion and ideology. The paper classifies them into five specific sociological indicators or proofs of originally French Ca...

One of the most important developments in the study of the Reformation over the past generation has been a growing appreciation of the various influences that went into the making of the Reformed tradition. Fifty years ago, the American historian John T. McNeill could write the book, The History and Character of Calvinism, which treated the Zurich Reformation as merely a prelude to the much mor...

In a passing criticism of my Calvinus, Dr Richard Muller dismisses as ‘unfortunate’ my claim that Amyraut’s soteriology may be identified as ’authentic Calvinism’. Yet even he has admitted that ‘Calvin’s teaching was ... capable of being cited with significant effect by Moïse Amyraut against his Reformed opponents’. So why is my claim so ‘unfortunate’? Others seem to agree with me. According to...