Protestant reformation Quote by Christopher Lascelles

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning.…

— John Shelby Spong

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

— Rodney Stark

“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

“Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into…

— Joel R. Beeke

I believe that it is truly important for everyone to confront in dialogue the historical reality of the Reformation, its consequences and the responses…

— Pope Francis

The argument that there was a social pathology of the English Reformation, that there were fundamental changes in English society and the English church…

— David Starkey

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

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The processes of secularization that followed in the wake of the Reformation continue to work themselves out in complicated ways, not only in Europe…

— Brad Stephan Gregory

“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