Thus  Lutheranism  is  a  system  gathered
round  the  doctrine  of  justifying  faith,  while
Calvinism  (q.v.)  is  a  system  turning  on  the
absolute  power  of  God  as  seen  in  election  and
reprobation,  and  other  doctrines  are  sub-
ordinated to  or  influenced  by  these.  In  the
English  Articles  it  is  remarkable  that  dis-
tinctively Lutheran  language  is  avoided  on
Justification,  and  the  Calvinistic  catch- words
are  absent  from  the  treatment  of  Predestina-
tion, the  essential  point  of  reprobation  not
even  being  mentioned.  At  the  same  time,
the  influence  of  the  Geneva  school,  which  was
dominant  in  this  country  in  the  reign  of
Edward  vi.,  may  be  traced  in  The  XLII.
