A year later, on Oct. 31, 2016, Lutheran and Roman Catholic leaders held a joint ecumenical prayer service in Sweden, launching a yearlong commemoration of the Reformation.

In this sense, the Protestant Reformation cannot be dismissed as a mere “mistake,” even if in my view it mistakenly deemed some Catholic doctrines to be unbiblical and church-dividing.

But, as Reformation historian Lee Palmer Wandel has shown, the Reformation produced deeper and more lasting divisions. In 1500, a “Christian” was a baptized Catholic. By 1600, there were ...

In the 1950s, Pleasant Grove, Tex. (now southeast Dallas), where I grew up, was a white working-class town where Catholics did not exist. For me, the religious “others” were Southern Baptists ...

I haven't read the book, of course, but the article seems to me rather old fashioned. Many historians today have dropped the term Counter-reformation in favor of Catholic Refomation.

Hans Küng is a Roman Catholic priest who believes that Protestantism must undertake a second reformation if the Christian church is ever to be made one, but that is by far the lesser half of his ...

Launched on October 31, 1517, the Protestant Reformation broke not just with the Catholic Church but with all that’s dark and demonic, wanton and witchy.

The reformation critical of Roman Catholic Church practices occurred in Europe in circa 1500, which resulted in the beginning of Protestantism as a result of the objections by Martin Luther, a ...

Find out about the Reformation with BBC Bitesize History. For students between the ages of 11 and 14. ... The Catholic Church would not allow Henry to divorce Catherine, so in 1527, ...