urg to discuss their differences. The two men, however, had very little in common, and their discussions ended in failure. Luther, for his part, thought Zwingli was crazy, and was a religious fanatic who had lost touch with common sense. After Marburg, unification of the various Protestant movements became impossible, and the new church, which Luther believed would become another, divided into a thousand separate churches. Zwingli was killed and Switzerland became partially Protestant and partially Catholic.John Calvin then introduced the idea or Protestantism in Geneva. The main idea of Calvinism was predestination. Which meant whatever happens, happens because it was planned before. Calvin believed that God was the almighty and that the individual had no power to change his destiny. He was dedicated to reform of the church and he got his chance to build a reformed church when the citizens of Geneva revolted against their rulers in the 1520's. The Genevans, however, unlike the citizens of Zurich, Bern, Basel, and other cities that became Protestant in the 1520's, didn’t speak German, but mostly French-speakers. Because of their language difference, they did not have close cultural ties with the reformed churches in Germany and Switzerland. His most important work involved the organization of the church and the social organization of the church and the city. He was, the first major political thinker to model social organization entirely on the Bible.By the mid-1550's, Geneva was thoroughly Calvinist in thought and structure. It became the most important Protestant center of Europe in the sixteenth century, for Protestants had been driven out of their native countries of France, England, Scotland, and the Netherlands all came to Geneva to live.The Catholic Church was not surprised by the results of the Reformation. It had been steadily battling opposition, and resistance for over four hundred years. Much of the opposition a...
