In practice, however, the Lutheran Reformation worked to keep its ties to the civil order and was the established religion wherever it predominated in Germany and Scandinavia.
For the zealots of the Counter-Reformation, works of art had value only as propaganda material, the subject matter being all important; and in Rome there was as a result a sharp decline in artistic quality.
The Northern Territory deal will be the first test of whether such a reformation can work.
I know I watch "Intervention" clips compulsively and intently, partly because I've come to believe there's something in the attitude of an inebriated person — how penitent, angry, sorrowful, funny, duplicitous or agile he is — that allows you to predict whether the show's effort at reformation will work.
As a reformation of work pattern, concurrent engineering (CE) is commonly regarded as a systematic approach to integrated, concurrent design of products and its related processes, including manufacture and support processes.
As Max Weber observed, the Reformation sanctified work as a spiritual end in itself.
For the next 140 years the convocations were busy with the Reformation settlement, working with the monarch and Parliament.
Seven times longer than the Augsburg Confession, the Apology is considered one of the most brilliant of the Reformation theological works.
It primarily aims at Tablighi spiritual reformation by working at the grass roots level, reaching out to Muslims across social and economic spectra to bring them in line with the group's understanding of Islam.
And during the counter-reformation, artists working for the church drew similar caricatures to mock the Protestants".
