---
title: 'John Calvin, Lawyer'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Henry Collin Minton'
date: 1909-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'Calvinism (Historical)'
- 'Theological Method'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 51'
- 'Romans 9'
- 'Ephesians 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/minton-1909-john-calvin-lawyer
---

# John Calvin, Lawyer

Essay portraying John Calvin as a lawyer-statesman whose legal training shaped his theology, stressing God's authority, law, judgment and predestination and influence on church and state.

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