NOUN
- a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
How To Use Protestant Reformation In A Sentence
- Early modern religion emerged with the Protestant Reformation. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
- The Protestant Reformation enlisted widespread lay support by its politically motivated aversion to the monastic ideal, which lay anticlericals opposed as absorbing too much wealth in support of its institutions.
- During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther broadened the term beyond ministry to include work that serves others, but still couched it in a religious framework. Chris Stedman: Do Only Religious People Have A 'Calling'?
- What influences prepared the way for the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century? A Short Guide to Writing About History
- From its inception there had been a committed Protestant minority who aspired to complete a full Protestant reformation - the Puritans.
- The Protestant Reformation in England brought a rejection of some of the ritualism of the Roman Catholic Church.
- It was against these excesses that the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century was aimed. Christianity Today
- The Protestant Reformation gave birth to several notable documents in the Kirk of Scotland.
- The modern territorial state upon which it was based was a derivative of the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation.
- Diebold asked, referring to the reassertion of central church authority that defined Roman Catholic life between the Protestant Reformation of the 1500s and the Second Vatican Council. USATODAY.com News
