Place of Publication - New York, 1971

This book is about pretty much the beginning of Calvinism and how it played a major role in the reforming of mid to late fifteenth century Europe. Franklin Charles Palm tries to exam the role in which John Calvin used his love for the sacred scriptures and religion to reform the way he lived, and the rest of the world. Concentrating mostly on Europe at that time period. Palm breaks down the life of Calvin at first, and then as he proceeds through this book he leads up to actual formation of the religion. And ultimately then how this newly formed religion affected or may off even caused some of the religious war. I unfortunately could not find any info on Franklin Charles Palm, though I even had one the librarians look for me to.

I feel that Franklin Charles Palm was really not trying to answer any certain question while he was attempting to write this informative novel at all. In fact I think that his true purpose for writing this was to give an accurate account of what role Calvinism played in that time period, because from what I can understand he did not feel that

Place of Publication - New York, 1971

Palm starts the novel out by explaining the early the early life of John Calvin and explains his life with his family. It talks about his father Gerad Calvin and his working as the secretary for the bishop of Nylon and as the fiscal agent for his district in England. It states how this made it possible for Calvin to meet some very influential people in his early life and made it possible for him to start to develop ideas about religion and other political views early on in life. When Calvin was at the age of entering college it made it hard for him to do so with the death of his father, and his mother having to support six children in the family. His father was able to set aside some money before he passed on for Calvin which in turn allowed him to attend the College at Montiaigu, at Paris for four years. This is where John developed a love for the bible and a tremendous understanding for the scriptures, which would in turn play a major role in his ideas for changing and for his reforming of the Catholic Church.

Now for the part I have been waiting for, the time I get to give my opinion of the book. Well let me start of by saying that I personally thought that it was going to be a very boring book but I was indeed surprised after reading it. I have always thought to consider myself a sort off history buff so I can see why in turn did enjoy learning about Calvin's subject matter. I am quite able to say now that I would probably consider reading other works of Franklin Charles Palm or just books on some of the same subject matter. I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest for these subjects, or just plan flat out needs to do a report on this topic.

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Approximate Word count = 1213
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)