Concept
Reformation
Overview
16th-century movement in Western Christianity
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In the original texts
Passages from public-domain books where Reformation is discussed.
The condition of our nature is such, that we buy our blessings at a price. The Reformation, one of the greatest periods of human improvement, was a time of trouble and confusion. The vast structure of superstition and tyranny, which had been for ages in rearing, and which was combined with the interest of the great and of the many, which was moulded into the laws, the manners, and civil…
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
a chapter is titled for it; states what it is; names the idea
The reformation now became general. Their marriages were made formerly after the same manner as in Turkey and Persia, where the bridegroom does not see his bride till the contract is signed, and they can no longer go from their words.
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
author linked in the graph; opens on it; names the idea
In the history of Scotland, too, I can find properly but one epoch: we may say, it contains nothing of world-interest at all but this Reformation by Knox. A poor barren country, full of continual broils, dissensions, massacrings; a people in the last state of rudeness and destitution; little better perhaps than Ireland at this day.
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
a chapter is titled for it; names the idea; opens on it
The English Established Church was restored, but not in its earlier form with the king for Pope, but was strongly infused with Calvinism. The old-established Church had kept up the merry Catholic Sunday and fought against the tedious Calvinistic one, the new bourgeois Church introduced the latter and added thereby to the charms of England.
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
names the idea; author linked in the graph
The long fight of the bourgeoisie against feudalism culminated in three great, decisive battles. The first was what is called the Protestant Reformation in Germany. The war-cry raised against the Church by Luther was responded to by two insurrections of a political nature: first, that of the lower nobility under Franz von Sickingen (1523), then the great Peasants' War, 1525.
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
editorial apparatus; states what it is; names the idea; author linked in the graph
Philosophers who discussed Reformation
- Albert Schweitzer
- R. H. Tawney
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- The Ego and Its Own
- Hans Reichenbach
- Lucian
- James Mill
- Max Weber
- Augustine of Hippo
- Meister Eckhart
- Philip K. Dick
- Renaissance
- Jean Bodin
- Thomas More
- Voltaire
- Justus Lipsius
- Plotinus
- Paul Tillich
- Friedrich Engels
- François Rabelais
- Herman Dooyeweerd
- Gabriel Biel
- Gregory of Rimini
- John Major (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Erasmus
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Edward Gibbon
- God in Christianity
- Genesis creation narrative
- Florence
- German language
- Anglicanism
- Ghent
- Arianism
- Geneva
- Gospel
- Book of Genesis
- Arminianism
- Thomas Cajetan
- Holy See
- House of Habsburg
- Hugh Trevor-Roper
- French Wars of Religion
- Council of Florence
- Iceland
- Alister McGrath
- Platonism in the Renaissance
- Waldensians
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.