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Topic: Reformation (disambiguation)


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  Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reformers in the Church of England alternated, for centuries, between sympathies for catholic traditions and Protestantism, progressively forging a stable compromise between adherence to ancient tradition and Protestantism, which is now sometimes called the via media, and which was in effect abandoned at the decision in the 1990s to ordain women.
The frustrated reformism of the humanists, ushered in by the Renaissance, contributed to a growing impatience among reformers.
The major individualistic reform movements that revolted against medieval scholasticism and the institutions that underpinned it were: humanism, devotionalism, and the observatine tradition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reformation   (4044 words)

  
 Christian: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
But the power to confer sacraments and otherwise control spiritual things fell under the sole jurisdiction of the clergy and as such was open to abuse.
John calvin (july 10, 1509 - may 27, 1564) was a preeminent christian theologytheologian during the protestant reformation and is the...
John knox (1505, 1513 or 1514 - 1572) was a scottish religious reformer who played the lead part in reforming the church in scotland in a presbyterian...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christian.htm   (3425 words)

  
 Christianity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament.
In the European Reformation of the 1500s, Protestants and numerous similar churches renounced allegience to Rome in objection to perceived abuses of growing Papal authority and to perceived doctrinal error and novelty in Rome.
The Protestant Reformation led to the development of a great number of denominations with unique teachings and practices distinct from Roman Catholicism and each other, including Lutherans, Quakers, and Mennonites.
christianity.ask.dyndns.dk   (5128 words)

  
 English art - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about English art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The late 14th-century Wilton Diptych (National Gallery, London), showing Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child, is a rare example of medieval panel painting.
What little sculpture has survived the destructions of the Reformation – and, later, the Civil War of the 17th century – is heavily indebted to French works.
The Italian sculptor Torrigiano introduced the Renaissance style in his tomb of Henry VII in Westminster Abbey (1512–18).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /English+art   (1661 words)

  
 BIBLE : Encyclopedia Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The type of text printed in this edition and in those of Erasmus became known as the Textus Receptus (Latin for "received text"), a name given to it in the Elzevier edition of 1633, which termed it the text nunc ab omnibus receptum ("now received by all").
On it the Churches of the Protestant Reformation based their translations into vernacular languages, such as the King James Version.
The discovery of older manuscripts, such as the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus, led scholars to revise their opinion of this text.
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/bible   (4418 words)

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