Woodrow Wilson, a Calvinist, believed he was one of the elect, chosen to lead, teach and inspire.
For a city with such a strong Calvinist streak, Edinburgh's boozers are astonishingly sybaritic.
Golf is, after all, a Scottish game, rooted in that country's gloomy Calvinist traditions.
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This now seems as remote to us as a Calvinist anti-Christmas protest outside a Catholic Church in Manhattan.
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Not that the Calvinist church is the only one caught up in politics.
The grandson of a Dutch immigrant who settled in hardscrabble West Texas, Koch can sound like a Calvinist minister at times.
Most of the participants come from churches with Calvinist roots, such as the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church.
It's not surprising that Van Gogh found transcendence in a "blade of grass" an image he perhaps borrowed from the Calvinist critic Thomas Carlyle.
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Her marriage failed and by 1928 she was back in Nieu Bethesda caring for her elderly parents, stuck in what was then a staunchly Calvinist farming village.
Reverend Billy is the stage persona created by a man named Bill Talen, 60, who grew up in a strict Dutch Calvinist household in the Middle West.
The popular sense of English difference, however much it may have been tinged with Calvinist zeal, ultimately rested not on theological but on social foundations: the unprecedented prosperity and power of the first sizeable modern economy.
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