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  1. Calvinist theology, with its emphasis on action in the world and its association of success with sanctification, even with election, was well suited, in the use made of it by German state churches, to act as an aggressive creed of social discipline.

  2. Jul 12, 2017 · July 12, 2017. Luther’s Revolution. The Reformation did a lot more than transform Christianity. Elizabeth Bruenig. This article appears in the July 31-August 7, 2017 issue . Martin...

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  4. Feb 20, 2018 · In the 1930s, a group of German Protestants set up what they called a De-Judaization Institute that tried to create a de-Judaized version of Christianity that might be acceptable to the Nazis. By the time they finished their project, there was virtually nothing left.

  5. Dec 8, 2021 · The German sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920), for example, saw in the Protestant Reformation the seeds of the ‘disenchantment of the world’, by which he meant the replacement of superstitious and magical beliefs by more rational and ultimately secular modes of thought, resulting eventually—and paradoxically—in the ‘iron cage’ of ...

  6. Oct 30, 2017 · Movements often create origin stories and figureheads, but the success of the Reformation was forged not by any one man, but by emotions that the many who aided the spread of these ideas, engaged ...

  7. Germany - Lutheranism, Confessionalization, Reformation: The 1525 revolution was but one of several upheavals worrying German rulers. Three years earlier a group of imperial knights led by Franz von Sickingen had declared a feud against the archbishop of Trier, claiming to derive from scripture their right to despoil Roman Catholic prelates. The ensuing “Knights’ War” was quickly crushed ...

  8. Nov 2, 2017 · The Protestant Reformation, explained Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther changed Christianity — and the world. By Tara Isabella Burton @NotoriousTIB Nov 2, 2017, 12:30pm EDT

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