Category Archives: Protestant Reformation

Angling Toward Anglicanism

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Nathan

We’ve been looking in previous weeks about how Protestantism took hold in various European nations, but I think England might be the only case where it was instituted by a king, and for personal reasons at that. The monarch in … Continue reading →

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Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knox

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Nathan

In the past few weeks, I’ve looked at some of the major Protestant reformers on the European continent, but the British Isles remain to be addressed. The story of how King Henry VIII split with the Catholic Church for personal … Continue reading →

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Calvin and the Gypped Monks

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Nathan

We now turn to John Calvin, another member of the elite squadron of Protestant reformers. Okay, to present them as a squadron isn’t really fair, since they didn’t agree on a whole lot (Calvin sided with Zwingli over Luther on … Continue reading →

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It Don’t Mean a Thingli If It Ain’t Got That Zwingli

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Nathan

I’ve already written about Martin Luther, and I’m sure I’ll get to John Calvin in due course (quite possibly next week), but today I’m focusing on the Protestant reformer who doesn’t get as much attention, perhaps because his name is … Continue reading →

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