Reformation Quote by Benjamin Blech

“The only common feature of the three successful Reformations was their rejection of papal authority; otherwise they were quite at odds.”

— Rodney Stark

“Wherever the Reformation took hold the Bible replaced the Pope as the final spiritual authority.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“the Reformations resulted in state churches that were even more repressive of individuals than the Catholic Church ever attempted to be. The Reformations did…

— Rodney Stark

“We often understand the Protestant Reformation as a conflict about doctrine. Justification. Grace versus works. Ecclesiology. Indulgences. And it was. But what captured the…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“The Protestant reformation gave a big boost to literacy, spawned dissent and heresies, and promoted scepticism and refusal of authority that is at the…

— Christopher Lascelles

“Though the Reformation originated with the Lord's fresh move through various reformers, in a rather short time the resulting churches became institutionalized with a…

— Henry Hon

“That Word, which had created the world out of nothing, was certainly capable of producing the reformation the entire church needed, and to which…

— Justo L. González

The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the…

— John Foxe

“The work of God's house, reformation work especially, is a stirring work: read history, you find not any where, reformation made in any age,…

— Various

“The Protestant Reformation did not merely seek to cleanse the church and deliver it from doctrinal errors, but it also sought the restoration of…

— Henry R Van Til

“The history of the church seems to indicate to us two positions as true, with reference to this matter,—viz. lst, That assurance of salvation…

— William Cunningham