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  2. Protestant Reformers - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of Protestant Reformers - Wikipedia

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    A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Liste von Reformatoren]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Liste von Reformatoren}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

  4. Reformation - Wikipedia

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    The self-governing free imperial cities were the first centers of the Reformation. [170] The Evangelical preachers emphasized that many of the well-established church practices had no precedent in the Bible. They offered the Eucharist to the laity in both kinds, [171] and denied the clerics' monopolies, which resonated with popular anti ...

  5. Reformed Christianity - Wikipedia

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    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 16th-century Protestant Reformation.

  6. History of Reformed Christianity - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. History of Protestantism - Wikipedia

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    A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) Rosman, Doreen. The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500–2000 (2003) 400pp; Ryrie, Alec. Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World (2017) excerpt, covers last five centuries; Winship, Michael P. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (Yale UP ...

  8. Continental Reformed Protestantism - Wikipedia

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    The continental Reformed churches had an impact on Anglicanism through the Puritans, who wished to reform the Church of England along continental lines. [1] The following is a chronological list of confession and theological doctrines of the Reformed churches: First Helvetic Confession (1536) Consensus Tigurinus (1549) French Confession (1559)

  9. List of Puritans - Wikipedia

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    The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church, during the Reformation. The group is also extended to include some early colonial American ministers and important lay-leaders. The majority of people in this list were mainstream Puritans ...