Created by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality.
Comprised of pastors and elders, this body met weekly and summoned people for a wide range of sinful behavior, such as drunkenness, dancing, blasphemy, or simply quarrels, and was a far more intrusive institution than the Catholic Inquisition.
Among the thousands summoned during Calvin's ministry were a pair of women who were allegedly prophets, boys who skipped catechism to practi.
University Of Rochester Press The consistory and social discipline in calvin's geneva, paperback/jeffrey r. watt
