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  2. Cavalier - Wikipedia

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    Of another Cavalier, George Goring, Lord Goring, a general in the Royalist army, [14] the principal advisor to Charles II, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, said: Triple Unite gold coin of 1644: the Latin legend translates as "The religion of the Protestants, the laws of England and the liberty of Parliament.

  3. Virginia Cavaliers (historical) - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters (known as Cavaliers) in the Royal Colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration in the mid-17th century. They are today seen as a state symbol of Virginia and the basis of the founding Cavalier myth of the Old South.

  4. Christianity in the 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The church not only retained the core Catholic beliefs common to Reformed doctrine in general, such as the Trinity, the Virgin Birth of Jesus, the nature of Jesus as fully human and fully God, the Resurrection of Jesus, Original Sin, and Excommunication (as affirmed by the Thirty-Nine Articles), but also retained some Catholic teachings which ...

  5. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Southern chivalry - Wikipedia

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    Depiction (from 1913) of the Royalist presence in Virginia during the reign of Oliver Cromwell over the Home Islands. Popular concepts of a Southern aristocracy originated with the heritage of the "Old South" as the colonial possessions of the British Empire, when the meteoric growth of the plantation industry led to the entrenchment of wealthy landowners as a dominant socially and politically ...

  7. History of Protestantism - Wikipedia

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    The Liturgical Movement became significant in both Catholic and Protestant Christianity, especially in Anglicanism. Another movement which grew up over the 20th century was Christian anarchism which rejects the church, state or any power other than God. They usually believe in absolute nonviolence.

  8. Historiography of early Christianity - Wikipedia

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    If God Spare my Life, Abacus, ISBN 978-0-349-11532-0; Murphy, Catherine M. (2007), The Historical Jesus for Dummies, For Dummies Pub. Newton, Francis (1999), "The Date of the Midecean Tacitus", The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058–1105, Cambridge University Press; O'Grady, John (1997), The Roman Catholic church: its origins and ...

  9. Divine right of kings - Wikipedia

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    The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth, for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself, they are called gods. There be three principal [comparisons] that illustrate the state of monarchy: one taken out of the word of God, and the two other out of the grounds of policy and ...