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The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [ 1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
The Protestant Reformation was initiated by the German monk Martin Luther. By the early 1520s, Luther's views were known and disputed in England. [14] The main plank of Luther's theology was justification by faith alone rather than by good works. In this view, God's unmerited favour is the only way for humans to be justified—it cannot be ...
This is the first English translation of the Bible to be authorised for use in parish churches. 1539. Second Act of Dissolution; Henry VIII intervenes to halt the doctrinal reformation. 1540, 6 January. Henry marries Anne of Cleves. 1540, 9 July. Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled. 1540, 28 July.
Protestantism originated from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The term Protestant comes from the Protestation at Speyer in 1529, where the nobility protested against enforcement of the Edict of Worms which subjected advocates of Lutheranism to forfeit all of their property. [ 1] However, the theological underpinnings go back ...
Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. According to Philip Melanchthon , 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg , Electorate of Saxony , in the Holy Roman Empire .
Martin Luther OSA ( / ˈluːθər / LOO-thər, [ 1] German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈlʊtɐ] ⓘ; 10 November 1483 [ 2] – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. [ 3] Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism.
A Protestant is an adherent of any of those Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them. [19] During the Reformation, the term protestant was hardly used outside of German politics.
Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, [1] also called Calvinism, [a] is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.