by admin | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Still only 27 years old, John Calvin publishes the first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion. This first edition was quite compact. Over the next 23 years Calvin would repeatedly enlarge and restructure this work, culminating in the massive edition of...
by admin | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Augsburg Confession of Faith presented to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Written by Philip Melanchthon and representing the views of the early Lutheran reformation, it took a strong stand on the necessity of justification by faith alone. Hopes that the emperor...
by admin | Jun 1, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Five princes and fourteen cities formally protest the decision of the majority at the second diet (sort of like a parliament) of Speyer to re-impose religious uniformity throughout the Holy Roman Empire. The first diet of Speyer, in 1526, had voted unanimously to...
by admin | May 25, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Believer’s baptism is re-instituted by the Swiss Brethren in Zurich. It is almost universally agreed, even by those scholars whose churches do not practice it today, that baptism by immersion upon profession of faith was the normative practice of the earliest church....
by admin | May 18, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
Henry VIII declared to be “Supreme Head of the Church of England” by the English Parliament, an explicit rejection of obedience to the pope in Rome. This “Act of Supremacy” is considered to be the beginning of the “official” English Reformation. It would be some time...
by admin | May 11, 2016 | Blog, Unjargoned
William Tyndale, from his exile in Germany, produces the first complete English New Testament to be translated from the original Greek. A true linguistic genius, Tyndale was determined to translate the Bible into English that even the plough-boy could understand. He...
