How Did John Calvin's Major Protest

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John Calvin’s major protest mostly began in Geneva. On his way to Strasbourg he took a detour to Geneva. William Feral, a reformer insisted he stay to help reform the church there. Calvin became a pastor and preacher but was asked to leave because of theological conflicts. He became a minister in Strasbourg lived peacefully. After a few years the Council of Geneva requested he return to Geneva. Calvin wanted to stay in Strasbourg but felt obligated to return to Geneva.Those years were loaded with lecturing, preaching, and the writing of commentaries, treatises, and various editions of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Shows and entertainments were expressly forbidden by their religion and so for more than two hundred years, not a single