church reforms
Congregational policy changes
Church reforms are changes made to religious institutions, their doctrines, practices, or governance.
The term most often refers to movements within Christianity aimed at correcting perceived corruption or updating traditions: The Protestant Reformation began as a call for church reforms.
Reforms may address clergy conduct, liturgical practices, administrative structures, or theological positions.
The phrase can describe both historical movements and contemporary efforts to modernize religious institutions.
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- papacyPope's office and authority
- Vatican IIMajor Catholic reform council
- Latin MassPre-Vatican II Catholic liturgy
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
Great Awakening · reform movement · parish councils · liturgy · canon law · Martin Luther · Ninety-Five Theses · schism · sacraments · episcopacy · ecumenism · vernacular · synod · catechism · indulgences · theses · papal authority · abolitionism
church reformschurch tradition
Inherited worship practice
religious conservatism · Counter-Reformation · religious fundamentalism
church reformspolitical reforms
Alterations to governmental structures
governmental reforms · secular law · governmental policy · civil code · constitutional reforms