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Reformers on the visible church?
Reformers on the visible church?
Did the reformers believe that Christ's Church was visible?
The short answer is that some did.
John Calvin held a high view of the visible church on earth.
Often when ...
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How did the western Church arrive at such a state of corruption by the sixteenth century?
How did the Western Church arrive at such a state of corruption by the sixteenth century?
There are many contributing factors in answering this question. But
McLaurine H. Zentner in her undergraduate ...
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Did the Reformers accuse the Catholic Church of being "a pagan mixture"?
In a search for the answer, I found no direct evidence for the Reformers making claims against the Catholic church relating to its paganism. The first quote I found was the following, published in ...
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On Bishops Who Refused to Sign Henry VIII's Oath of Succession?
Possible referents of "two others"
The Wikipedia article on the 1534 Act Respecting the Oath to the Succession also mentioned only one bishop (Bishop John Fisher) and grouped him with two ...
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Who won the Leipzig Debate between Martin Luther and Johann Eck?
I will give a Lutheran perspective. An online source, from this perspective for the debate can be found here. The highlighted quotes that are brought out in this response comes from that online source....
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Did the Reformers accuse the Catholic Church of being "a pagan mixture"?
Actually, the charge leveled by the Reformers was not so much that the Roman Catholic Church was too pagan but rather that it was too Jewish!
Things like incense or icons of heavenly things (Exodus 25:...
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Did the Reformers accuse the Catholic Church of being "a pagan mixture"?
There are many accusations about Catholics and paganism.
Here is one from John Calvin who lived 1509-1564 about the Catholic Church and idols, relics, images, and other superstitions adopted from ...
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Would "Diet of Worms" seem strange to English-Speakers at the time?
People who are aware of the Latin origin of the political terminology "Diet" (from the Latin dieta to mean formal deliberative assembly), especially in Germany where the first thing that ...
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