Reformation

reformation réformation Réformâtion re-formation English Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Reformation.wav Southern England en eɪʃən 4 Proper noun 1 Reformation en Q12562 en historical The religious movement initiated in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church, leading to more than a century of internecine conflict that ended with a durable division between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. en 2003 MacCulloch Diarmaid Diarmaid MacCulloch w:The Reformation: A History Penguin 9781101563953 xviii-xix Who or what is a Catholic? This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds in western Latin Christianity How can the word describe all of these things and still have any meaning? I have written this book about the sixteenth-century Reformation in part to answer that question. The Reformation introduced many more complications to the word; in fact there were very many different Reformations, nearly all of which would have said that they were simply aimed at recreating authentic Catholic Christianity. For simplicity’s sake I will take for granted that this book examines multiple Reformations, some of which were directed by the Pope. From now on I will continue to use the shorthand term ‘Reformation’, but readers should therefore note that this is often intended to embrace both Protestantism and the religious movements commonly known as Tridentine Catholicism, the Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation: the revitalized part of the old Church which remained loyal to the Pope. ’Catholic’ is clearly a word which a lot of people want to possess. By contrast, it is remarkable how many religious labels started life as a sneer: the Reformation was full of angry words. Reformation disputes were passionate about words because words were myriad refractions of a God one of whose names was Word: a God encountered in a library of books itself simply called ‘Book’ – the Bible. It is impossible to understand modern Europe without understanding these sixteenth-century upheavals in Latin Christianity. They represented the greatest fault-line to appear in Christian culture since the Latin and Greek halves of the Roman empire went their separate ways a thousand years before; they produced a house divided. The fault-line is the business of this book. Derived terms en Counter-Reformation postreformational prereformational Reformationist Related terms en reform reformation reformed Reformed reformer Reformer reformist Translations religious movement Armenian: hy Ռեֆորմացիա Bengali: bn খ্রিস্টধর্ম সংস্কার-আন্দোলন, bn প্রোটেস্টান্ট সংস্কার-আন্দোলন Bulgarian: bg Реформация f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 宗教改革 Zōngjiào Gǎigé Czech: cs reformace f Dutch: nl hervorming f Finnish: fi uskonpuhdistus French: fr réformation f, fr Réformation f, fr Réforme f, fr réforme protestante f Georgian: ka რეფორმაცია German: de Reformation f Greek: el Μεταρρύθμιση f Hungarian: hu reformáció Italian: it riforma protestante f, it scisma protestante m Kazakh: kk Реформация Korean: ko 종교 개혁(宗教改革) Latin: la refōrmātiō f Norman: nrf Réformâtion f Polish: pl reformacja f Portuguese: pt Reforma Protestante f Russian: ru Реформа́ция f Scottish Gaelic: gd Ath-leasachadh m an t-Ath-leasachadh Spanish: es Reforma protestante f Tagalog: tl Repormasyon Vietnamese: vi Cải cách Kháng nghị, vi Cải cách Tin Lành Welsh: cy Diwygiad m, cy Diwygiad Protestannaidd m See also en Catholicism, en Roman Catholicism en Christianity (en Gentile Christianity, en Jewish Christianity) en Eastern Orthodoxy en Messianic Judaism en Protestantism Further reading German Etymology de :bor la:refōrmātiō de la refōrmātiō. Pronunciation de /ʁefɔʁmaˈt͡si̯oːn/ de De-Reformation.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun f reformation de historical in particular Reformation religious movement initiated in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church Declension f Derived terms de Gegenreformation Further reading de