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Today marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas Müntzer’s execution after he led a mass revolt that was both religious and social ...
His decision to side with the princes transformed the Reformation from a grassroots movement into an act of state. Everywhere the Protestant reformers went, they sought to work with the proper ...
The Protestant Reformation that started in 1517 in Europe advanced onward with the completion of the American Revolution. Freedom of religion in America allowed new churches to be started here ...
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What is officially marked in several German cantons and by dozens of different Protestant denominations as “Reformation Day” often serves as a replacement for Halloween, that holiday ...
To Protestant historians, Galileo’s fate is a sharp contrast to the freedom other Enlightenment luminaries, like Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and Johannes Kepler, enjoyed in Reformation regions.
Salman Rushdie has recently argued that Islam requires “not so much a reformation… as an Enlightenment ... Hugh Trevor-Roper have explained that Protestant thought was in many respects ...
The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations ... this process. This timeline highlights key milestones ...
emerging in response to the Counter-Reformation of the Church, a reaction to challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation to the Catholic Church's authority. Despite being referred to as the ...
3. The Enlightenment grew out of the Protestant Reformation and Italian Renaissance. The Enlightenment has several different causes. Sustained funding from the “Sun King,” Louis XIV ...
By the 1600’s the Scientific Revolution of the Enlightenment was in full ... course of Europe’s history and culminate in the Protestant Reformation. Never before had intellectual and ...