The clearest evidence of the Reformation's impact on the shaping of what some modern scholars call "the revolution of the common man" are the Twelve Articles drawn up for the Swabian peasantry by an Evangelical cleric and associate of Zwingli's.
Gerardus Mercator (1512-94) solved many of cartography's problems with his maps and globes, and his life was shaped by plague, war, religion, humanism and the Reformation.
Her association with the Reformation is critically important, for it shaped the future course of the nation, but it does not appear to have been a personal passion: observers noted the young princess's fascination more with languages than with religious dogma.
On the eve of the Reformation the relation of church and state shaped much of the history of Roman Catholicism, as it had done since the time of the emperor Constantine.
Many forces shaped Mercator's life: plague and war, humanism and the Reformation, Lutheranism and Calvinism.
After helping to shape the local ordinances promulgated at Easter in 1529 to establish the Reformation in Basel, Oecolampadius defended Zwingli's position again at the Colloquy of Marburg (October 1529), where he debated Luther.
More than any other person, Erasmus through his publications and letters created the intellectual and spiritual milieu into which the Protestant Reformation was born; and more than anyone except Martin Luther, he shaped the early development of that great religious upheaval even though he never joined it.
Afghanistan of today, in whatever shape that it is, would not have been possible without Amanullah Khan's attempt at reformation in the 1920s and the "Decade of Democratization" of 1960-1970.
In The Decision, the 42th item is about the reformation of education, which indicates that Chinese basic education development should "keep shaping people's morality, strengthening the education of socialist core value system and perfecting the Chinese excellent cultural tradition" (Xinhuanet, 2013).
He rightly, and unfashionably, insists that the Catholic movement was both a Catholic reformation and a counterreformation, though he exaggerates the extent to which it was shaped by reaction.
