Did Martin Luther know Calvin?

Answer 1

No, although they were somewhat contemporaries, the did not ever meet, Calvin died in 1572 and Luther died in 1546

Calvin was devoted to his religion but his main problem with Catholicism was clerical celibacy.

Luther's problem with the Catholic church was he has sworn to become a monk when he was nearly struck by lightening as a student. He made good on his promise but he was so intelligent that when he became a monk he just had to change things. He also married.

Answer 2

No, there is no record of their meeting. However, Calvin was conversant with Luther's doctrines. It is important to remember that John Calvin belongs to the second generation of the Reformation, Lutheranism already had its classic formation in the Augsburg Confession. Zwingli, founder of the Reformed tradition, had lived and died before Calvin, who was to give his name to that tradition, had become a Protestant. Calvin was never a monk or a priest, nor was he ever a matriculated student of theology. A pious, precocious young Catholic scholar in law and the humanities, and in demonstrable dependence on Luther's teaching about justification by grace through faith alone, Calvin came into the fold of the Reformers by an "unexpected conversion."

Answer 3

Martin Luther (November 10, 1483 – February 18, 1546) was a German monk, priest, professor, theologian, and church reformer. His teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions.

John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism.

Its possible that Calvin could have met the German priest, as In 1536, he settled in Geneva, Switzerland. After being expelled from the city, he served as a pastor in Strasbourg from 1538 until 1541, before returning to Geneva, where he lived until his death in 1564.

Strassbourge is not far from Worms, however, Luther was at this time writing his In his 60,000-word pamphlet 'On the Jews and Their Lies', published in 1543

He was busy getting Jews expelled from Saxony in 1537, and in the 1540s he drove them from many German towns; he tried unsuccessfully to get the elector to expel them from Brandenburg in 1543.

At that time, at the age of twenty-six, Calvin published several revisions of his Institutes of the Christian Religion, a seminal work in Christian theology that is still read today. It was published in Latin in 1536. But unlike the Lutherians, he was being expelled from cities.

heavily influenced by his writings, there is not any evidence to suggest that Calvin ever met Luther in person.

Answer 4

Calvin who? Klein?

Answer 5

Duh, Calvin was a 16th C Protestant and Luther was a 20th C Black rights campaigner