Talk:Bernardino Ochino

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Calvinism? Seriously?
How could Ochino be seen as a 'permanent Calvinist' when his work, according to THIS Wikipedia article, began to undermine Calvin's five points (TULIP, etc.)? In 1553 the accession of Mary I drove Ochino from England. He went to Basel, where Lelio Sozzini and the lawyer Martino Muralto were sent to secure Ochino as pastor of the Italian church at Zürich, which Ochino accepted. The Italian congregation there was composed mainly of refugees from Locarno. There for 10 years Ochino wrote books which gave increasing evidence of his alienation from the orthodoxyaround him. The most important of these was the Labyrinth, a discussion of the freedom of the will, covertly undermining the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination.

In 1563 a long simmering storm burst on Ochino with the publication of his Thirty Dialogues, in one of which his adversaries maintained that he had justified polygamy under the disguise of a pretended refutation. His dialogues on divorce and against the Trinity were also considered heretical.

To me it seems reasonable to include Ochino in the Calvinism project but not to CALL him a Calvinist thinker, since he left the fold. MaynardClark (talk) 02:14, 26 August 2014 (UTC)