John Calvin

French Protestant reformer (1509-1564)

theological work by John Calvin

protestant cathedral in Geneva

metrical psalter, choral book

church buildings in the city of Geneva, Switzerland

Wife of John Calvin

1543 work by John Calvin

Psychopannychia (Latin from Greek; literally "all-night-vigil of the soul") is the earliest theological treatise by John Calvin dating in Latin manuscript from Orléans, 1534. The tract opposes the mortalism or "soul sleep" taught by Anabaptists and other radical Protestants. Psychopannychia first appeared in print in Latin as Vivere apud Christum non dormire animis sanctos, Strasbourg, 1542, and then in French, in a translation not by Calvin, as Psychopannychie, Geneva, 1558.

beliefs of John Calvin