Protestant Reformation
The 16th-century rupture with Rome over justification, authority, and the sacraments
The Protestant Reformation was the sixteenth-century movement that broke with Rome over justification, church authority, and the sacraments, sparked by Luther's Ninety-Five Theses and carried forward by figures such as Calvin and Zwingli. The traditions evaluate it differently: some communions regard it as a needed reform of the Church, while others view it as schism or heresy. It is recorded here neutrally as a watershed event in Christian history.
How it traveled
- A History of the Work of RedemptionNorthampton, Massachusetts · c. 1758 CEexplains
Key passages(7)
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
THE SUCCESS OF REDEMPTION FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT TIME. Thus having gone through the dark time of the church, I come now to consider that part which begins with the Reformation, and reach
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
1. The first opposition that I shall notice is that which was made by the clergy of the church of Rome in a general council. This was the famous council of Trent, which the pope called a little while
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
The heathen persecutions had been very dreadful: but now persecution by the church of Rome was improved, and studied, and cultivated, as an art or science. Such ways of afflicting and tormenting were
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
(1.) The reformed church is much diminished. The Reformation, in former times, was supposed to take place through one half of Christendom, excepting the Greek church; or that there were as many protes
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Martin Luther to Nicolas Armsdoff Concerning Erasmus of Rotterdam · Martin Luther
Before my time, it required a great to-do, and an enormous expense, to canonize a dead monk. But now, there is no easier way for canonizing even living Neroes and Caligulas, than the declaration of ha
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Commentary on Galatians · Martin Luther
No wonder Paul was able to foretell the abominations that Antichrist would bring into the Church. That Antichrists would come, Christ Himself prophesied, Matthew 24:5, “For many shall come in my name,
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
And this is still the more exceeding wonderful, if we consider how often the church has been brought to the brink of ruin, and the case seemed to be desperate. In the time of the old world, when wicke
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