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nounrescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
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nouna religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
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nounimprovement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairstype of:
Definition that contains reformation
- catherine first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)
- confession the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
- luther German theologian who led the Reformation; believed that salvation is granted on the basis of faith rather than deeds (1483-1546)
- knox Scottish theologian who founded Presbyterianism in Scotland and wrote a history of the Reformation in Scotland (1514-1572)
- reformed of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran
- erasmus Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)
- huss Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415)
- puritan a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
- homunculus a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
- loyola Spaniard and Roman Catholic theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus; a leading opponent of the Reformation (1491-1556)