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6 days ago · The Catholic Church was a leading arts patron across much of Europe. The goal of much art in the Counter-Reformation, especially in the Rome of Bernini and the Flanders of Peter Paul Rubens, was to restore Catholicism's predominance and centrality.
4 days ago · Typically, historians view Oct. 31, 1517, as the beginning of the period known as the Protestant Reformation. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest a decade earlier, Martin Luther came to a deep conviction of the need for reform in the church. On the night before All Saint’s Day, he affixed his ...
2 days ago · Michelangelo's 1498–99 Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica; the Catholic Church was among the patronages of the Renaissance. Partly in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church engaged in a substantial process of reform and renewal, known as the Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reform.
4 days ago · The late Canadian historian and theologian W. Stanford Reid made the bold claim, writing in Christianity Today in 1965, that the Reformation is the greatest revival since Pentecost.
5 days ago · Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental , Presbyterian , and Congregational traditions, as well as parts of the Anglican and Baptist traditions.
5 days ago · The crucial shift in Reformation church history was the jettisoning of any emphasis on the integrity of the hierarchy as a mark of the True Church, and the relocation of that essence in the presence of a saving remnant, however small.
2 days ago · The populace adhered fervently to the Church’s tenets and rites, with the commerce of indulgences, purportedly granting absolution from purgatorial afflictions, being rife, and dissent against ecclesiastical practices largely quashed. Against this backdrop emerged Martin Luther, a harbinger of reform poised to challenge the Church’s hegemony.
