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As the church continued to consolidate its power and define its beliefs, it did not always act and speak with one voice. In the fourteenth and fif...
As the year 1500 arrived, Europe was in the midst of profound changes. The conditions, attitudes, and institutions that had characterized the Midd...
Extraordinary events often begin with seemingly ordinary people. A promising son of a typical middle-class family at the turn of the sixteenth cen...
It is often through trial and adversity that God shapes His people the most. After publishing what he thought to be an unremarkable critique of co...
Emperor Justinian I and Pope Gregory I stand out as two of the most significant figures in the centuries of transition that marked the early Middl...
In response to Martin Luther's tireless ministry, more Christians came to recognize the need to reform the church, and reform movements began ...
Western Christianity changed forever during Martin Luther's lifetime. Profoundly gifted and profoundly flawed, Luther had an enduring desire t...
God excels at overturning human expectations. When John Calvin left Geneva in 1538, he assumed that he would not be back. Content to study and min...
It is common to think of John Calvin primarily in terms of his intellectual accomplishments, perhaps regarding him as little more than a brain wor...
Many who desired to reform the Roman Catholic Church eventually split off from it. However, energetic reforms also emerged within the Catholic Chu...
