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2 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.
4 days ago · How England Became Protestant. Portrait of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Cranmer who reformed the English church, by Gerlach Flicke. (photo: Public domain) COMMENTARY: While the 500-year-old fracture of Christendom is marked, the goal of real and lasting unity is the task all Christians should remember. Father Dwight Longenecker, October 23, 2017.
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3 days ago · Law uses a wide range of evidence, from wills of academics to inventories of books and evolving college statutes, to trace the process of reform in Edward’s reign, and challenges the ‘implied or explicit comparison to the strength of Catholicism in Oxford’ that has led scholars to see Cambridge as a resolutely ‘Protestant’ university ...
5 days ago · Spitz has little time for this paradoxical insistence that Luther may have depended on the thought-patterns of a school of theology which he rejected twice, first as a humanist when reforming the Wittenberg curriculum, and again, more profoundly, as a reformer (e.g. VII, 113). Yet the paradox, that Luther could denounce the 'sophists' and yet ...
4 days ago · The 1689 Toleration Act granted England’s Protestant dissenting ministers legal protection to erect meeting houses and to worship outside of the Church of England if they qualified by swearing the oath of allegiance to King William III and Queen Mary, and by subscribing to 36 articles within the Church’s doctrinal standard, the Thirty-Nine ...
4 days ago · Christianity and Politics XI: From the Reformation to Early America. By Ben C. Dunson - Posted at The American Reformer: Published April 26, 2024. Note: This is Part 11 of an ongoing series. See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, and Part 10. Introduction.
1 day ago · Erasmus wrote several notable pastoral books or pamphlets on sacraments, always looking through rather than at the rituals or forms: on marriage and wise matches, preparation for confession and the need for pastoral encouragement, preparation for death and the need to assuage fear, training and helping the preaching duties of priests under ...
