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Reformed Christianity
Overview
branch of Protestantism
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It contains Four Great Branches: _The Greek Catholic Church_; _The Roman Catholic Church_; _The Evangelical Lutheran Church_; and _The Reformed Churches_, comprising a great number of denominations and sects. The Lutheran Church and the Reformed Churches are called Protestant. (For the names and relations of various branches of the Church, see the accompanying Diagram, on page 106.)
Martin Luther, An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
States what Reformed Christianity is.
In the Middle Ages it showed itself clearly. In proportion as feudalism developed it grew into a religion corresponding with it, with a hierarchy corresponding to the feudal. And when the rule of the bourgeois came in, it developed into Protestant heresy in antagonism to feudal Catholicism, at first in the South of France, among the Albigenses at the time of the highest growth of the free cities. The Middle Ages had…
Friedrich Engels, Feuerbach
The author is tied to Reformed Christianity in the knowledge graph.
Those concerning the government of the church, and the right of conferring ecclesiastical benefices, were perhaps the most interesting to the peace and welfare of civil society. They gave birth, accordingly, to the two principal parties or sects among the followers of the reformation, the Lutheran and Calvinistic sects, the only sects among them, of which the doctrine and discipline have ever yet been established by…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Close in meaning to Reformed Christianity; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Reformed Christianity
- William Godwin
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Max Weber
- A. J. Ayer
- Augustine of Hippo
- Netherlands
- Antoine Arnauld
- Ralph Cudworth
- Pierre Bayle
- Henry More
- Baruch Spinoza
- Carl Jung
- Friedrich Engels
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
- Wilhelm Dilthey
- Hugo Grotius
- Alvin Plantinga
- Cornelius Van Til
- Elisabeth of the Palatinate
- William Ames
- Arnold Geulincx
- Johannes Althusius
Related ideas
- Evangelicalism
- Christian universalism
- Jesus
- Genesis creation narrative
- Adam and Eve
- Anglicanism
- Glorious Revolution
- Geneva
- Arminianism
- Abraham
- Waldensians
- John Calvin
- Northern Europe
- John Locke
- John Milton
- Laissez-faire
- Latin
- Harvard University
- Autonomy
- Liberalism
- Max Weber
- American Revolution
- Methodism
- Augustine of Hippo
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.