The German peasants were among the first to try to unlock the revolutionary potential of Reformation teachings to fight ...
The Protestant Reformation (1517–1648) was a religious revolution that challenged the authority of the Catholic Church.
His decision to side with the princes transformed the Reformation from a grassroots movement into an act of state. Everywhere the Protestant reformers went, they sought to work with the proper ...
The Mennonite population is being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas. Here's a closer look at the Anabaptist family ...
While excavating a parking lot in Eschwege, Germany, ahead of the construction of a new public park, archaeologists uncovered ...
Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was ...
John Rist says the secularization and moral fragmentation in England stems from the cataclysmic 16th-century event and the ...
Her book The Fourth Reformation, coming in August from Bloomsbury Academic, “illuminates why conflict and uncertainty and transformation are endemic to all religious traditions—and how gender and ...
Mennonites are part of the wider Anabaptist family of churches, which emerged in 1525 as the radical wing of the Protestant Reformation in Central Europe. Other Anabaptist branches today include ...
The Protestant reformation also allies with a key idea in Islam: that there should be no “intermediary between yourself and God”, that priests are not needed. In Islam it’s called “Taweed ...
Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...