Era of Reform
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Era of Reform
 
 
DATES: PEOPLE: STORY:

1500

1517: Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses

 


1534: England breaks with Rome

 


1536: John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

 

 


1545: Council of Trent begins






Humanist

Desiderius Erasmus




Erasmus's Greek New Testament
Lutheran

Martin Luther
Philip Melanchthon


Luther's German Bible
Luther's Catechisms
Book of Concord
Radical

Thomas Müntzer
Menno Simons


Anabaptists
Mennonites
Reformed

Huldrych Zwingli
John Calvin



Huguenots

Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

English

Henry VIII
Elizabeth I

Book of Common Prayer
Thirty-Nine Articles
Authorized Version
Roman Catholic

Charles V
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Ignatius of Loyola


Council of Trent
Society of Jesus

Evangelism in Asia
New Spain
 
 

Justification by faith

Lord's Supper
Baptism

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Baltic States
Bohemia
British Isles
France
German lands/Holy Roman Empire
Hungary, Poland and Lithuania
Italy
Low Countries
Scandinavia
Spain
Switzerland

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