Word: calvinists
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...academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic Church and the crown had made headway in whittling down Protestant liberty, and in 1685 the Edict was revoked. Within a few weeks 2,000 churches were razed to the ground, and thousands of Huguenots (French Reformed and Calvinist believers) were fleeing the country...
...King). Roland kept their morale high by his Robin Hood exploits and hairbreadth escapes. In the end he was caught and executed, and finally the camisards were reduced to a remnant. But their struggle had crystallized public opinion against religious intolerance, and for 45 years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national synods, setting up a divinity school in Lausanne, Switzerland to supply pastors to the underground churches. Finally, two years before the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was forced to sign an edict of tolerance for Protestantism. The revolution-which...
Leveling the Obstacles. The novel experiment in Protestant monasticism was begun by Roger Schutz, 45, the ninth child of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French mother, who turned from agnosticism to study theology at Lausanne and Strasbourg and enter the ministry himself. In 1940, determined to serve where the need was greatest, he went to defeated France and settled in a rambling old stone building at Taizé, where for two years he hid Jews from the Nazis. The Germans never caught him. When they occupied Taizé, Schutz had returned to Switzerland. With four friends he continued...
...opposition has given way to interest and approval. Editorialized Paris' daily Le Monde: "Taizé contributes to leveling the psychological and doctrinal obstacles that history has strewn in the path of Christian unity." Taizé's brothers (average age: 30) are currently either Lutheran or Calvinist...
This is one diehard Calvinist who's voting for a good Christian Catholic over a hypocritical Protestant...