religious reformation
Church doctrine upheaval
A religious reformation is a movement to reform a religion's doctrines, practices, or institutions—correcting perceived corruption or returning to purer origins.
The term most often refers to the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, when Martin Luther and others challenged Catholic Church authority, leading to the establishment of Protestant denominations.
More broadly, any organized effort to transform religious practice: The movement called for a reformation of the faith.
- burning at the stakeExecution by public immolation
- Martin LutherProtestant Reformation founder
- Ninety-Five ThesesAnti-indulgence propositions from 1517
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- John CalvinFrench Protestant reformer
Anabaptism · Thomas Cranmer · indulgences · Act of Supremacy · King James Bible · heresy · Calvinism · Lutheranism · Augsburg Confession · sacraments · Puritanism · Huguenots · excommunication · printing press · Diet of Worms · missionary activity · schism · cultural shifts
religious reformationCounter-Reformation
Church's internal reform movement
religious conservatism · religious fundamentalism · traditionalism
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