A phrase used to designate a Christian faction during the Protestant Reformation that was considered more extreme in its beliefs and actions than the primary Protestant Reformers. Radical ...
The 440th anniversary of that memorable day when Martin Luther first posted his theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation is about to be observed.
In other words, your future in either Heaven or Hell was at stake. The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed ...
Some men had made great stands before him, notably John Wycliffe and Jan Hus in the 14th and 15th centuries respectively. But for reasons only God knows, Luther had a particular ability to spark the ...
Originally applied to German Lutherans in 1529, “Protestant” then implied rejection ... Calvin and other Continental reformers on Anglican doctrine and liturgy. “Episcopal,” on the other ...
But what did early modern English Protestants think they were doing when they went through the motions of worship? In Protestant Bodies, Arnold Hunt argues that the English Reformation was a gestural ...