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Joseph Lortz was the second youngest of seven children. Having graduated from the Gymnasium of the benedictine Abbey of Echternach , he studied philosophy and theology at the Gregorian University in Rome from 1907 to 1910, [ 1 ] and at the University of Fribourg from 1911 to 1913.
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.
It remains in use today, along with Luther's hymns and his translation of the Bible. Luther's Small Catechism proved especially effective in helping parents teach their children; likewise the Large Catechism was effective for pastors. [144] Using the German vernacular, they expressed the Apostles' Creed in simpler, more personal, Trinitarian ...
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.
The theology of Martin Luther (1966) 464 pages; Bagchi, David, and David C. Steinmetz, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology (2004) 289 pp. Bainton, Roland H. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950) 386 pages; Bayer, Oswald, Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation (2008) 354 pages; Brendler, Gerhard.
For example, one of Krauth’s major books, “The Conservative Reformation and its Theology,” is an extended defense of the Real Presence. Krauth was personally influenced by his reading of the Mercersburg theologians, John Williamson Nevin and Philip Schaff , who had attempted a similar repristination of Calvinist theology within the ...
John Knox (c. 1514 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation.He was the founder of the Church of Scotland.
Heinrich Bullinger was born to Heinrich Bullinger Sr., a priest, and Anna Wiederkehr, at Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland. [2] Heinrich and Anna were able to live as husband and wife, even though not legally married, because the bishop of Constance, who had clerical oversight over Aargau, had unofficially sanctioned clerical concubinage by waiving penalties against the offense in exchange for ...