A person who follows the religious teachings and theology of John Calvin.
From Calvinism plus the suffix -ist (a person who believes in or practices something). Emergeduring the Protestant Reformation to describe followers of Calvin's particular theological interpretation.
Calvinists were some of the earliest to argue for strict separation of church and state, and many American Founding Fathers were influenced by Calvinist thinking—their ideas about individual accountability to God shaped American democracy in surprising ways.
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