Sentence examples for radical protestant from inspiring English sources
He had a radical Protestant sense of human corruption.
Milton, a radical Protestant dissenter, had to fold them into his poem so cunningly that most people would never notice.
Though his life was to be the embodiment of a secularised form of dissent, his high moral seriousness and egalitarianism surely had roots in this radical Protestant background.
The United States was settled, in part, by radical Protestant iconoclasts from Britain who considered the creation and use of sacred imagery to be a violation of the Second Commandment against graven images.
At the same time, the experience of martyrdom in the persecutions of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation encouraged the development of a new saintly ideal in the radical Protestant sects.
The radical Protestant conviction that demanded that spiritual equality in the eyes of God be met with a greater social equality here on earth never failed to inform his history writing.
Oldenburg, who seems to have regarded Spinoza as a kindred spirit, was keen to promote Spinoza's ideas among the radical Protestants with whom he associated in England.
Disagreement over England's official faith was why radical Protestants, now known as Pilgrims and Puritans, departed to settle colonies at Plymouth (1620) and Massachusetts Bay (1630).
Radical Protestants are spied on, tortured and burned for heresy, and in this climate of fear, the queen has written a dangerously Protestant confessional book which has now been stolen, and could be used to destroy her.
Here crypto-Calvinists (Lutherans charged with maintaining Calvinist views), Anabaptists (radical Protestants), Schwenkfeldians (followers of the Reformer Schwenkfeld), Paracelsian physicians (followers of the occultic physician Paracelsus), and humanists vied with orthodox Lutherans.
In 1566 the steadily deepening crisis of the Netherlands came to a head when groups of radical Protestants ransacked Roman Catholic churches, desecrating hosts, smashing stained-glass windows, and breaking sacred images.
