In tracking the history of Presbyterianism to write an earlier post here (
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1517 Luther Issues
The Ninety-Five Theses 1521 Diet of Worms declares Luther a heretic 1522 Luther's Translation of New Testament appears 1525 Anabaptism appears in Switzerland 1530 Diet of Augsburg founds Lutheran Church 1531 Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, dies 1534 Church of England secedes from Catholic Church 1534 Loyola Writes
Spiritual Exercises, founding Jesuits 1536 Calvin writes
Institutes of the Christian Religion This made me realize with something of a start that all of the institutional seeds of the Reformation were pretty much sewn and blooming in a mere 20 years—along with the seeds of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Published on December 10, 2014 09:43