1566年的今天,荷兰承认加尔文教。
但是,加尔文教派信奉的是一个严厉的上帝,他任意选择哪些人可以进天堂。
But Calvinism believes in a severe God who chooses people to heaven at his own random will.
约翰·加尔文是法国人,但本周他却在日内瓦被人们纪念,因为正是在这里,他创立了加尔文教派。
John Calvin was a Frenchman, but he is being remembered in Geneva this week because it was here that he built Calvinism.
And this belief that's called Calvinist predestination is really at the heart of mainstream English Puritanism at this point.
这种叫做加尔文宿命论的观点,与主流英国清教主义相一致。
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