Reformation
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Movements

  • Protestant Reformation
    Protestant Reformation
    The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...

    , an attempt by Martin Luther to reform the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in a schism, and grew into a wider movement
  • Catholic Reformation, the reformation of Roman Catholic Church, before, during and after the Protestant Reformation
  • English Reformation
    English Reformation
    The English Reformation was the series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church....

    , series of events in 16th century England by which the church in England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church
  • Radical Reformation
    Radical Reformation
    The Radical Reformation was a 16th century response to what was believed to be both the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and the expanding Magisterial Protestant movement led by Martin Luther and many others. Beginning in Germany and Switzerland, the Radical Reformation birthed many radical...

    , an Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation
  • Scottish Reformation
    Scottish Reformation
    The Scottish Reformation was Scotland's formal break with the Papacy in 1560, and the events surrounding this. It was part of the wider European Protestant Reformation; and in Scotland's case culminated ecclesiastically in the re-establishment of the church along Reformed lines, and politically in...

    , 1560
  • Reformation in Switzerland
    Reformation in Switzerland
    The Protestant Reformation in Switzerland was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrate and population of Zürich in the 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss...

    , 1520s

Other uses

  • Reformation, a term commonly used in the United States for the Rectification (law)
    Rectification (law)
    Rectification is a remedy whereby a court orders a change in a written document to reflect what it ought to have said in the first place. It is an equitable remedy, which means the circumstances where it can be applied are limited....

     of a written contract or legal instrument
  • Post-Suharto era or Reformation, the (current) era in Indonesia following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the fall of Suharto, characterized by increased freedom and political participation
  • Reformation (Kiuas album), 2006
  • Reformation (Spandau Ballet album)
    Reformation (Spandau Ballet album)
    Reformation is a compilation album by Spandau Ballet. It was released in 2002 by Chrysalis Records and Reformation Records.-Track listing:*CD One: Demos and studio tracks#"Robert Elms Introduction" - 0:19...

    , 2002
  • The Reformation, the fourth volume of Will Durant's massive history The Story of Civilization
    The Story of Civilization
    The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an eleven-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader...

  • "Reformation" (The Wire), a 2004 episode of the television series The Wire
  • Reformation (journal)
    Reformation (journal)
    Reformation is a peer-reviewed annual academic journal sponsored by the Tyndale Society, publishing "original research in scholarship of the Reformation era." Since 2006 it is published by Equinox Publishing ....

    , a peer-reviewed annual academic journal sponsored by the Tyndale Society
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