John Calvin From ancient Egypt to the Christian Church ruling over the majority of Europe theocratic governments had one great ideal in common: political ideologies were not just from the church, they were the church. John Calvin had his own, unique version of a theocracy, which he outlined in his novel The Institutes on Christian Piety. Calvin had a great distaste of the Catholic papacy so he made the Protestant theocracy by separating civil government …showed first 75 words of 850 total…

…showed last 75 words of 850 total…and sympathize with them. This is shown because Goodman Brown can’t sympathize and so he separates himself from the community because he sees everyone as heathens. John Calvin was a truly great thinking and theologian of not only his time but also in any time. He wrote extensively and through all his writings he successfully helped reform Geneva and many other people’s thoughts in Europe and in the early colonies of New England.