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  • Roman Catholic Scholar Converts to the Evangelical Cause

    05/09/2007 1:08:47 PM PDT · by topcat54 · 24 replies · 824+ views
    Paris News Service ^ | Dateline Paris, 1534 | "Guy LaFontaine"
    Dateline Paris, 1534. © Paris News Service By Guy LaFontaine Jean Calvin, 25, of Noyon, a leading scholar of the classics and law student in the University of Paris, has reportedly converted to the evangelical cause. A classicist with a bright future before him, Calvin published a promising work on Seneca's On Clemency just two years ago. That future has become considerably cloudier of late. Sources tell us that it was likely young Calvin who wrote the provocative sermon given by Nicholas Cop, rector of the University. Since the so-called Affair of the Placards (during which one of the Protestant...