Calvinism a denomination?

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You would decidedly NOT likely find Calvinists in the Roman Catholic Church, and probably very seldom in any of the more liberal denominations. You may occasionally find them in the pews, but you won't find them in the pulpit.

There used to be a bunch of "Calvinist's " in The Roman Catholic church , but there beliefs were not welcome

while this movement did not agree entirely with Reformed theology concerning Soteriology , it did however stress Predestination .......... and in the last place you would expect!

3. the Jansenists

specifically an influential member of A Roman Catholic Movement , within The Roman Catholic Church

Cornelius Otto Jansen



'History of the Jansenists

While French Calvinism is, relatively speaking, rather easily described, Jansenism is, in its various aspects, a rather difficult phenomenon to describe. It was for the most part a movement within the Roman Catholic church that, throughout the better part of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, looked to re-establish within the church of Rome the Augustinian belief in the total depravity of man, and the doctrine of predestination. The movement traces its most direct origins back to the Flemish theologian and bishop, Cornelius Otto Jansen. It would be incorrect, however, to say that Jansen founded the Jansenist movement. What Jansen himself was most directly responsible for was an exhaustive study of the doctrines of Augustine which were published post-humously in a book entitled Augustinius . The book was immediately accused of being Calvinistic in flavor, and among those Catholics who supported freewill and the humanist impulses of the sixteenth century (e.g., the Jesuits), it was harshly condemned. Although the movement began as a theological one, it would be incorrect to say that Jansenism was primarily concerned with theological problems, for in the eighteenth century, it would take on a distinctly political flavor. For this reason, this paper will look at Jansenism primarily in its early stages, before the term Jansenist was applied to any malcontent of the upper middle class.'

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oly...961/jansen1.htm