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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 ...
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]
Reformed Christianity also has a complicated relationship with Anglicanism, the branch of Christianity originating in the Church of England. The Anglican confessions are considered Protestant, and more specifically, Reformed, [ 15 ] and leaders of the English Reformation were influenced by Calvinist rather than Lutheran theologians.
[61] [62] Women in the church were prominent in church rolls, [63] [64] the Pauline epistles, [65] [66] and in early Christian art, [67] while much early anti-Christian criticism was linked to "female initiative" indicating their role in the movement. [61] [68] [69] [note 1] A folio from Papyrus 46, an early third-century collection of Pauline ...
The seeming inability of Pope Leo X (1513–1521) and those popes who succeeded him to comprehend the significance of the threat that Luther posed – or, indeed, the alienation of many Christians by the corruption that had spread throughout the church – was a major factor in the rapid growth of the Protestant Reformation. By the time the ...
A New History of Early Christianity. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-17083-2. González, Justo L. (1987). A History of Christian Thought. Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon (revised ed.). Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-0-687-17182-8. González, Justo L. (2010). The Story of Christianity. Vol. 1 The Early Church to the Dawn ...
The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses (/ w ɔː l ˈ d ɛ n s iː z, w ɒ l-/), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation.
History of Christianity Reading Room: Extensive online resources for the study of global church history (Tyndale Seminary). Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Christianity in History; Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Church as an Institution; Sketches of Church History From AD 33 to the Reformation by Rev. J. C Robertson, M.A., Canon of ...