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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...
As the teachings of the Protestant Reformation spread throughout Europe, Protestant movements appeared in many different countries. In some areas,...
The success or failure of the Reformation in a particular region often depended on whether the ruler of the region supported or opposed it. Howeve...
When times of trial and persecution come to an end, the absence of external tension may create opportunities for internal strife and division. Wit...
The Reformation was a turning point in the history of the church. And in its aftermath, Protestants wanted to continue along the trajectory set by...
One might think of scholastic theology as dry, nitpicky, and irrelevant, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Many scholastic th...
