Sentence examples for reformation context from inspiring English sources

A biography, by a historian of religion who sets his subject in the Reformation context, of the American preacher, logician and theologian who lighted the fuse on the Great Awakening of the 1700's.

A biography, by a historian of religion who sets his subject in the Reformation context, of the mighty American preacher, logician and theologian who lighted the fuse on the Great Awakening of the 18th century.

On the other hand, he developed and inserted into a Catholic and Counter-Reformation context an element that was already present in Machiavelli, especially in his Discourses on the First Decade of Livy: the view of religion as one of the most powerful bonds in the human community.

But no biographer has taken more trouble than John Stubbs to put them in a post-Reformation historical context and to examine their causes and their effects.

Among traditional Lutherans Johann Arndt (1555 1621) in his Four Books on True Christianity took up many of the themes of medieval mysticism in the context of Reformation theology and prepared the way for the spiritual revival known as Pietism, within which mystics such as Count von Zinzendorf flourished.

Marsden's rich, satisfying portrait -- which won the Bancroft Prize -- places Edwards within the context of the Reformation and traces his intellectual and spiritual beginnings.

(It's certainly true that you can't see the Inquisition outside the context of the Reformation, which really did present an existential threat to the Roman Catholic Church. The inquisitors weren't crazy to think that they had mortal enemies out there).

In the context of the Reformation, followers of Martin Luther and John Calvin in many parts of Europe (most notably in the principalities of the so-called Holy Roman Empire) aligned their reformed versions of institutional Christianity with the political interests and civil authority of electors, magistrates, princes and other heads of state.

The war occurred within the context of the Protestant Reformation in Germany and the subsequent Counter-Reformation, and concurrently with the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion.

The Revocation (as it came simply to be called, so momentous was it) must be understood in the context of the general reformation of Christianity in the sixteenth century.

The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms.