Nicolas Cop
Nicolas Cop was a Swiss Protestant Reformer and friend of John Calvin. Nicolas and his brother Michel were sons of the king's physician and became Calvin's friends at their shared time at the College de Montaigu.
Around 1533, when Calvin had returned to Paris, tensions between the humanists/reformers of the Collège Royal (later to become the Collège de France) and the conservative senior faculty members were rising. Cop had been elected rector of the university and was one of the reformers. On November 1, 1533 he devoted his inaugural address to the need for reform and renewal in the Catholic Church. Calvin certainly influenced but didn't write the address, which defended the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
The address provoked a strong reaction from the faculty and they denounced it as heretical. Cop appeared before the parliament of Paris, and when he failed to obtain the support of the king or the university, he was forced to flee to Basel. Calvin was implicated in Cop's offense and, for the next year, he was forced into hiding. In January 1535, Calvin joined Cop in Basel, a city under the influence of the reformer Johannes Oecolampadius.[1]
Notes
- ^ Ganoczy 2004, pp. 7–8; Cottret 2000, pp. 63–65, 73–74, 82–88, 101; Parker 2006, pp. 47–51; McGrath 1990, p. 62–67
References
- Cottret, Bernard (2000), Calvin: A Biography, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-3159-1 Translation from the original Calvin: Biographie, Editions Jean-Claude Lattès, 1995.
- Ganoczy, Alexandre (2004), "Calvin's life", in McKim, Donald K. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to John Calvin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-81642-2
{{citation}}: Check|isbn=value: checksum (help) - McGrath, Alister E. (1990), A Life of John Calvin, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-16398-0.
- Parker, T. H. L. (2006), John Calvin: A Biography, Oxford: Lion Hudson plc, ISBN 978-0-7459-5228-4.
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