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Subject: Re: [HWE] Huguenots followers of John Calvin
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 14:33:33 +0100
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HCV schrieb:
>
> I refer to recent postings on this mailing list
> mentioning that the Huguenots were followers of
> Martin Luther. The French Huguenots were all
> followers of John Calvin, not of Martin Luther,
> and in fact after the revocation of the Edict of
> Nantes the French Huguenot refugees were not
> always welcomed in Lutheran controlled parts of
> Europe.

As usual one has to differentiate between a person (Luther)
and "-anism" (Lutheranism).

While it is true that the French Huguenots and other
Reformed Protestants were strongly opposed by the so called
Lutherans when arriving and living in their towns, they
considered themselves (including Calvin) as followers of
Luther. In their struggle with the "Lutherans" they
sometimes cited from Luther's works to show that the
Reformed Protestants were the true Lutherans!

Even if heavy struggles on the true interpretation of Luther
arose, nobody can deny the strong influence of Luther on
Calvin and Reformed Protestantism generally.

Markus Röhling

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