Sentence examples for radical reformation from inspiring English sources

Some historians speak of "the radical" Reformation or "the left wing of the Reformation".

Churches of the radical Reformation broke from established structures and called for sharp distinctions between Christian and non-Christian, sacred and secular, religious and worldly life.

In 1531, he fell in the second war of Kappel but left an important legacy, especially for the group who formed the mainstay of the radical Reformation.

The radical Reformation almost always restored the sense of an apostolate (missionary outreach), whereas some earlier Reformers neglected the importance of missionary activity, and some had even excluded it from the contemporary church's mandate.

He believes, he says, in all the things that Gingrich believes in: he believes in the Newtian vision of a radical reformation of American politics and culture, a process that necessarily occasions serious and bitter fighting.

Then in Luther's own circle, variant forms of Protestantism arose, which in the aggregate are variously described as the left wing of the Reformation or as the radical Reformation.

Dudley's religious policy was—in accordance with Edward's proclivities decidedly Protestant, further enforcing the English Reformation and promoting radical reformers to high Church positions.

The intolerance of the Reformation territorial churches found its counterpart in the intolerance of the revolutionary groups of the Reformation period, such as that of the German radical reformer Thomas Müntzer, which wanted to force the coming of the kingdom of God through the dominion of the "elect" over the "godless".

Nevertheless, he came to be firmly associated with a radical policy of reform and Reformation.

Rich and bewildering expressions of radical Protestantism emerged throughout Reformation Europe, sometimes as an extension of the logic of the conservative Reformation but more often as original movements bearing a logic all their own.

The radical branch of the Reformation under Zwingli always put primacy on God's speaking directly to us through the heart, and to this day one finds modern-day representatives like the Quakers uncomfortable with too-biblically centered an approach to religion.