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Exercitationes Apologeticæ pro Divina Gratia (Apologetic Exercises for Divine Grace), in its entirety (free PDF download) Example of Rutherford's literary phraseology in verse form; Samuel Rutherford: A Study Biographical and somewhat Critical, in the History of the Scottish Covenant, by Robert Gilmour, in its entirety (free PDF download)
Protestant Reformers were theologians whose careers, works and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.. In the context of the Reformation, Martin Luther was the first reformer, sharing his views publicly in 1517, followed by Andreas Karlstadt and Philip Melanchthon at Wittenberg, who promptly joined the new movement.
Leonhard Kaiser, also Leonhard Käser, Leonhard Kaysser; Kaspar Kantz; Georg Parsimonius, also Karg; Stefan Kempe; Johann Kessler, also Johann Keßler; Heinrich von Kettenbach ...
Sixteenth-century portrait of John Calvin by an unknown artist. From the collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (Library of Geneva). John Calvin is the most well-known Reformed theologian of the generation following Zwingli's death, but recent scholarship has argued that several previously overlooked individuals had at least as much influence on the development of Reformed Christianity and ...
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement or period or series of events in Western Christianity in 16th-century Northwestern Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
Before Martin Luther and John Calvin, some leaders tried to reform Christianity. The main forerunners of the Protestant Reformation were Peter Waldo , John Wycliffe and Jan Hus . [ 4 ] Martin Luther himself saw it important to have forerunners of his views, and thus he praised people like Girolamo Savonarola , Lorenzo Valla , Wessel Gansfort ...
As the Reformation took root, clashes broke out in many cities between local reformers and conservative city magistrates. It was in a free imperial city, Strasbourg, that Martin Bucer began his work. Located on the western frontier of the Empire, Strasbourg was closely allied with the Swiss cities that had thrown off the imperial yoke.
The Corpus Reformatorum (Corp. Ref., Cor. Ref., C.R., CR) ( Halle (Saale), 1834 sqq.), is the general Latin title given to a large collection of Reformation writings. This collection, which runs to 101 volumes, contains reprints of the collected works of John Calvin , Philip Melanchthon , and Huldrych Zwingli , three of the leading Protestant ...