Protestant Reformation

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Waldensians · Savonarola · Lollards · Western Schism · Hussites · Northern Renaissance · German mysticism
German mysticism

Start of the Reformation -------------------------

Ninety-five Theses · German Peasants\' War · Schmalkaldic League · Magisterials · Radicals · Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation

Protestant Reformers -------------------------

Luther · Melanchthon · Müntzer · Zwingli · Simons · Bucer · Olaus / Laurentius Petri
Laurentius Petri · Calvin · Karlstadt · Knox · Trubar · List of Protestant Reformers

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Norway / Holstein · England · Germany · Italy · Netherlands · Poland-Lithuania · Scotland
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PROTESTANTISM

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_ The Lord\'s Prayer in German Das Vaterunser_ on a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder during the Protestant
Protestant Reformation under Martin Luther .

The REFORMATION (from Latin
Latin _reformatio_, literally "restoration, renewal"), also referred to as the PROTESTANT REFORMATION, was a schism from the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther
Martin Luther and continued by John Calvin
John Calvin , Huldrych Zwingli , and other early Protestant Reformers in 16th century Europe
Europe . It is usually considered to have started with the publication of the _ Ninety-Five Theses _ by Luther in 1517, lasting until the end of the Thirty Years\' War with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Although there had been significant earlier attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church before Luther – such as those of Jan Hus
Jan Hus , Peter Waldo , and John Wycliffe – Martin Luther
Martin Luther is widely acknowledged to have started the Reformation with his 1517 work _The Ninety-Five Theses _. Luther began by criticizing the sale of indulgences , insisting that the Pope
Pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel. The Protestant
Protestant position, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as a complete reliance on Scripture as a source of proper belief (_sola scriptura _) and the belief that only faith, and not good deeds, bring salvation (_sola fide _). The core motivation behind these changes was theological , though many other factors played a part, including the rise of nationalism , the Western Schism that eroded faith in the Papacy
Papacy , the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia , the impact of humanism , and the new learning of the Renaissance
Renaissance that questioned much traditional thought.

The initial movement within Germany diversified, and other reform impulses arose independently of Luther. The spread of Gutenberg\'s printing press provided the means for the rapid dissemination of religious materials in the vernacular. The largest groups were the Lutherans and Calvinists . Lutheran
Lutheran churches were founded mostly in Germany, the Baltics and Scandinavia, while the Reformed
Reformed ones were founded in Switzerland, Hungary, France, the Netherlands and Scotland. The new movement influenced the Church of England decisively after 1547 under Edward VI and Elizabeth I , although the Church of England had been made independent under Henry VIII in the early 1530s.

There were also reformation movements throughout continental Europe known as the Radical Reformation
Radical Reformation , which gave rise to the Anabaptist , Moravian and other Pietistic movements. Radical Reformers, besides forming communities outside state sanction , often employed more extreme doctrinal change, such as the rejection of the tenets of the late antique councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon .

The Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church responded with a Counter-Reformation initiated by the Council of Trent . Much work in battling Protestantism was done by the well-organised new order of the Jesuits . In general, Northern Europe
Europe , with the exception of most of Ireland , came under the influence of Protestantism. Southern Europe
Europe remained Roman Catholic, while Central Europe
Europe was a site of a fierce conflict, culminating in the Thirty Years\' War , which left it devastated.

CONTENTS

* 1 Origins and early history

* 1.1 Earlier schisms * 1.2 Early Reformation in Germany * 1.3 Magisterial Reformation * 1.4 Radical Reformation
Radical Reformation * 1.5 Literacy * 1.6 Causes of the Reformation

* 2 Reformation outside Germany

* 2.1 Austria

* 2.2 Czech Lands

* 2.2.1 Jan Hus
Jan Hus * 2.2.2 Hussite
Hussite movement

* 2.3 Slovakia
Slovakia

* 2.4 Switzerland

* 2.4.1 Huldrych Zwingli * 2.4.2 John Calvin
John Calvin

* 2.5 Nordic countries

* 2.5.1 Sweden
Sweden * 2.5.2 Denmark
Denmark * 2.5.3 Iceland
Iceland

* 2.6 England

* 2.6.1 Church of England * 2.6.2 Church of Wales * 2.6.3 Puritan movement

* 2.7 Scotland
Scotland * 2.8 France
France * 2.9 Spain
Spain * 2.10 Portugal * 2.11 Netherlands * 2.12 Belgium
Belgium * 2.13 Luxembourg
Luxembourg * 2.14 Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary * 2.15 Ireland
Ireland * 2.16 Italy * 2.17 Poland
Poland "> Execution of Jan Hus
Jan Hus , an important Reformation precursor, in 1415.

Unrest due to the Great Schism
Schism of Western Christianity
Christianity (1378–1416) excited wars between princes, uprisings among the peasants, and widespread concern over corruption in the Church. New perspectives came from John Wycliffe at Oxford University
Oxford University and from Jan Hus
Jan Hus at the Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague . Hus objected to some of the practices of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church and wanted to return the church in Bohemia
Bohemia and Moravia
Moravia to early practices liturgy in the language of the people (i.e. Czech), having lay people receive communion in both kinds (bread _and_ wine – that is, in Latin, communio sub utraque specie ), married priests, and eliminating indulgences and the concept of Purgatory . Some of these, like the use of local language as the lithurgic language, were approved by the pope as early as in the 9th century.

Hus rejected indulgences and adopted a doctrine of justification by grace through faith alone .

The Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church officially concluded this debate at the Council of Constance (1414–1417) by condemning Hus, who was executed by burning despite a promise of safe-conduct. Wycliffe was posthumously condemned as a heretic and his corpse exhumed and burned in 1428. The Council of Constance confirmed and strengthened the traditional medieval conception of church and empire. The council did not address the national tensions or the theological tensions stirred up during the previous century and could not prevent schism and the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.

Pope
Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484) established the practice of selling indulgences to be applied to the dead, thereby establishing a new stream of revenue with agents across Europe. Pope
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) was one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes. He was the father of seven children, including Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia . In response to papal corruption, particularly the sale of indulgences, Luther wrote _The Ninety-Five Theses_.

EARLY REFORMATION IN GERMANY

Martin Luther
Martin Luther , shown in a portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder , initiated the Protestant
Protestant Reformation in 1517.

The Reformation is often dated to 31 October 1517 in Wittenberg, Saxony
Saxony , when Luther sent his _ Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences _ to the Archbishop of Mainz . The theses debated and criticised the Church and the papacy, but concentrated upon the selling of indulgences and doctrinal policies about purgatory , particular judgment , and the authority of the pope. He would later in the period 1517–1521 write works on the Catholic devotion to Virgin Mary
Virgin Mary , the intercession of and devotion to the saints, the sacraments, mandatory clerical celibacy, monasticism, further on the authority of the pope, the ecclesiastical law, censure and excommunication, the role of secular rulers in religious matters, the relationship between Christianity
Christianity and the law, and good works .

Reformers made heavy use of inexpensive pamphlets as well as vernacular Bibles using the relatively new printing press, so there was swift movement of both ideas and documents.

MAGISTERIAL REFORMATION

Main article: Magisterial Reformation

Parallel to events in Germany, a movement began in Switzerland under the leadership of Ulrich Zwingli . These two movements quickly agreed on most issues, but some unresolved differences kept them separate. Some followers of Zwingli believed that the Reformation was too conservative, and moved independently toward more radical positions, some of which survive among modern day Anabaptists
Anabaptists . Other Protestant movements grew up along lines of mysticism or humanism , sometimes breaking from Rome or from the Protestants, or forming outside of the churches. Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses placed in doubt and repudiated several of the Roman Catholic practices.

After this first stage of the Reformation, following the excommunication of Luther and condemnation of the Reformation by the Pope, the work and writings of John Calvin
John Calvin were influential in establishing a loose consensus among various groups in Switzerland, Scotland
Scotland , Hungary, Germany and elsewhere.

The Reformation foundations engaged with Augustinianism ; both Luther and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings of Augustine of Hippo . The Augustinianism of the reformers struggled against Pelagianism
Pelagianism , a heresy that they perceived in the Roman Catholic Church. In the course of this religious upheaval, the German Peasants\' War of 1524–1525 swept through the Bavarian, Thuringian and Swabian principalities, including the Black Company of Florian Geier , a knight from Giebelstadt who joined the peasants in the general outrage against the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Zwinglian and Lutheran
Lutheran ideas had influence with preachers within the regions that the Peasants' War occurred and upon works such as the Twelve Articles . Luther, however, condemned the revolt in writings such as _Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants _; Zwingli and Luther's ally Philipp Melanchthon also did not condone the uprising. Some 100,000 peasants were killed by the end of the war.

RADICAL REFORMATION

Main article: Radical Reformation
Radical Reformation

The Radical Reformation
Radical Reformation was the response to what was believed to be the corruption in the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church and the expanding Magisterial Protestant
Protestant movement led by Martin Luther
Martin Luther and many others. Beginning in Germany and Switzerland in the 16th century, the Radical Reformation gave birth to many radical Protestant
Protestant groups throughout Europe
Europe . The term covers both radical reformers like Thomas Müntzer , Andreas Karlstadt , groups like the Zwickau prophets and Anabaptist groups like the Hutterites and Mennonites .

In parts of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, a majority sympathized with the Radical Reformation
Radical Reformation despite intense persecution. Although the surviving proportion of the European population that rebelled against Catholic, Lutheran
Lutheran and Zwinglian churches was small, Radical Reformers wrote profusely and the literature on the Radical Reformation is disproportionately large, partly as a result of the proliferation of the Radical Reformation
Radical Reformation teachings in the United States .

LITERACY

Martin Luther's 1534 Bible
Bible translated into German. Luther's translation influenced the development of the current Standard German.

The Reformation was a triumph of literacy and the new printing press. Luther's translation of the Bible
Bible into German was a decisive moment in the spread of literacy, and stimulated as well the printing and distribution of religious books and pamphlets. From 1517 onward, religious pamphlets flooded Germany and much of Europe.

By 1530, over 10,000 publications are known, with a total of ten million copies. The Reformation was thus a media revolution. Luther strengthened his attacks on Rome by depicting a "good" against "bad" church. From there, it became clear that print could be used for propaganda in the Reformation for particular agendas. Reform writers used pre- Reformation styles, clichés and stereotypes and changed items as needed for their own purposes. Especially effective were writings in German, including Luther's translation of the Bible, his Smaller Catechism for parents teaching their children, and his Larger Catechism , for pastors.

Using the German vernacular they expressed the Apostles' Creed
Creed in simpler, more personal, Trinitarian language. Illustrations in the German Bible
Bible and in many tracts popularised Luther's ideas. Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), the great painter patronised by the electors of Wittenberg, was a close friend of Luther, and he illustrated Luther's theology for a popular audience. He dramatised Luther's views on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments, while remaining mindful of Luther's careful distinctions about proper and improper uses of visual imagery.

CAUSES OF THE REFORMATION

The following supply-side factors have been identified as causes of the Reformation:

* The presence of a printing press in a city by 1500 made Protestant adoption by 1600 far more likely. * Protestant
Protestant literature was produced at greater levels in cities where media markets were more competitive, making these cities more likely to adopt Protestantism. * Ottoman incursions decreased conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, helping the Reformation take root. * Greater political autonomy increased the likelihood that Protestantism would be adopted. * Where Protestant
Protestant reformers enjoyed princely patronage, they were much more likely to succeed. * Proximity to neighbors who adopted Protestantism increased the likelihood of adopting Protestantism. * Cities that had higher numbers of students enrolled in heterodox universities and lower numbers enrolled in orthodox universities were more likely to adopt Protestantism.

The following demand-side factors have been identified as causes of the Reformation:

* Cities with strong cults of saints were less likely to adopt Protestantism. * Cities where primogeniture was practiced were less likely to adopt Protestantism. * Regions that were poor but had great economic potential and bad political institutions were more likely to adopt Protestantism. * The presence of bishoprics made the adoption of Protestantism less likely. * The presence of monasteries made the adoption of Protestantism less likely.

REFORMATION OUTSIDE GERMANY

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The Reformation also spread widely throughout Europe, starting with Bohemia
Bohemia (Czech Lands) yet before Luther and over the next few decades also other countries.

AUSTRIA

Austria followed the same pattern of the German-speaking states within the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire , and Lutheranism became the main Protestant
Protestant confession among its population. Lutheranism gained a significant following in Austria which was concentrated in the eastern half of present-day Austria, while Calvinism was less successful. Eventually the adoption of the Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation reversed the trend.

CZECH LANDS

Main article: Bohemian Reformation Jan Hus
Jan Hus at the stake , Jena codex (c. 1500)

The Hussites
Hussites were a Christian movement in the Kingdom of Bohemia following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus
Jan Hus .

Jan Hus

Czech reformer and university professor Jan Hus
Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415) became the best-known representative of the Bohemian Reformation and one of the forerunners of the Protestant
Protestant Reformation.

Jan Hus
Jan Hus was declared heretic and executed – burned at stake – at the Council of Constance in 1415 where he arrived voluntarily to defend his teachings.

Hussite
Hussite Movement

This predominantly religious movement was propelled by social issues and strengthened Czech national awareness. In 1417, two years after the execution of Jan Hus, the Czech reformation quickly became the chief force in the country.

Hussites
Hussites made up the vast majority of the population, forcing the Council of Basel to recognize in 1437 a system of two "religions" for the first time signing the Compacts of Basel for the kingdom (Catholic and Czech Ultraquism , a Hussite
Hussite movement). Bohemia
Bohemia later also elected two Protestant
Protestant kings ( George of Poděbrady ).

After Habsburgs took control of the region, the Hussite
Hussite churches were prohibited and the kingdom partially recatholicized. Even later Lutheranism gained a substantial following, after being permitted by the Habsburgs with the continued persecution of the Czech native Hussite
Hussite churches. Many Hussites
Hussites thus declared themselves Lutherans .

Two churches with Hussite
Hussite roots are now second and third biggest churches in the predominantly agnostic country: Czech Brethren (which gave origin to the international church known as the Moravian Church
Moravian Church ) and Czechoslovak Hussite Church .

SLOVAKIA

Lutheranism gained a significant following. Calvinism appeared, but was less popular. Today 8.9% are Protestant, of which 5.9% are Lutheran
Lutheran and 1.8% are Reformed.

SWITZERLAND

Main article: Reformation in Switzerland

In Switzerland, the teachings of the reformers and especially those of Zwingli and Calvin had a profound effect, despite the frequent quarrels between the different branches of the Reformation.

Huldrych Zwingli

Main article: Huldrych Zwingli Huldrych Zwingli launched the Reformation in Switzerland.

Parallel to events in Germany, a movement began in the Swiss Confederation under the leadership of Huldrych Zwingli. Zwingli was a scholar and preacher who moved to Zurich
Zurich – the then-leading city state – in 1518, a year after Martin Luther
Martin Luther began the Reformation in Germany with his Ninety-five Theses . Although the two movements agreed on many issues of theology, as the recently introduced printing press spread ideas rapidly from place to place, some unresolved differences kept them separate. Long-standing resentment between the German states and the Swiss Confederation led to heated debate over how much Zwingli owed his ideas to Lutheranism. Although Zwinglianism does hold uncanny resemblance to Lutheranism (it even had its own equivalent of the Ninety-five Theses, called the 67 Conclusions), historians have been unable to prove that Zwingli had any contact with Luther's publications before 1520, and Zwingli himself maintained that he had prevented himself from reading them.

The German Prince Philip of Hesse saw potential in creating an alliance between Zwingli and Luther, seeing strength in a united Protestant
Protestant front. A meeting was held in his castle in 1529, now known as the Colloquy of Marburg , which has become infamous for its complete failure. The two men could not come to any agreement due to their disputation over one key doctrine. Although Luther preached consubstantiation in the Eucharist
Eucharist over transubstantiation , he believed in the spiritual presence of Christ at the Mass. Zwingli, inspired by Dutch theologian Cornelius Hoen , believed that the mass was only representative and memorial – Christ was not present. Luther became so angry that he famously carved into the meeting table in chalk _Hoc Est Corpus Meum_ – a Biblical quotation from the Last Supper meaning 'This is my body'. Zwingli countered this saying that _est_ in that context was the equivalent of the word _significant_ (signifies).

Some followers of Zwingli believed that the Reformation was too conservative and moved independently toward more radical positions, some of which survive among modern day Anabaptists
Anabaptists . One famous incident illustrating this was when radical Zwinglians fried and ate sausages during Lent in Zurich
Zurich city square by way of protest against the Church teaching of good works . Other Protestant
Protestant movements grew up along the lines of mysticism or humanism (cf. Erasmus
Erasmus ), sometimes breaking from Rome or from the Protestants, or forming outside of the churches.

John Calvin

Main article: John Calvin
John Calvin John Calvin
John Calvin was one of the leading figures of the Protestant
Protestant Reformation. His legacy remains in a variety of churches.

Following the excommunication of Luther and condemnation of the Reformation by the Pope, the work and writings of John Calvin
John Calvin were influential in establishing a loose consensus among various groups in Switzerland, Scotland
Scotland , Hungary, Germany and elsewhere. After the expulsion of its Bishop in 1526, and the unsuccessful attempts of the Berne reformer Guillaume (William) Farel , Calvin was asked to use the organisational skill he had gathered as a student of law to discipline the "fallen city" of Geneva. His "Ordinances" of 1541 involved a collaboration of Church affairs with the City council and consistory to bring morality to all areas of life. After the establishment of the Geneva
Geneva academy in 1559, Geneva
Geneva became the unofficial capital of the Protestant
Protestant movement, providing refuge for Protestant
Protestant exiles from all over Europe
Europe and educating them as Calvinist missionaries. These missionaries dispersed Calvinism widely, and formed the French Huguenots
Huguenots in Calvin's own lifetime, as well as causing the conversion of Scotland
Scotland under the leadership of the cantankerous John Knox
John Knox in 1560. The faith continued to spread after Calvin's death in 1563 and reached as far as Constantinople by the start of the 17th century.

The Reformation foundations engaged with Augustinianism . Both Luther and Calvin thought along lines linked with the theological teachings of Augustine of Hippo . The Augustinianism of the Reformers struggled against Pelagianism
Pelagianism , a heresy that they perceived in the Roman Catholic Church
Catholic Church of their day. Unfortunately, since Calvin and Luther disagreed strongly on certain matters of theology (such as double-predestination and Holy Communion), the relationship between Lutherans and Calvinists was one of conflict.

NORDIC COUNTRIES

All of Scandinavia
Scandinavia ultimately adopted Lutheranism over the course of the 16th century, as the monarchs of Denmark
Denmark (who also ruled Norway and Iceland
Iceland ) and Sweden
Sweden (who also ruled Finland
Finland ) converted to that faith.

Sweden

In Sweden, the Reformation was spearheaded by Gustav Vasa
Gustav Vasa , elected king in 1523. Friction with the pope over the latter's interference in Swedish ecclesiastical affairs led to the discontinuance of any official connection between Sweden
Sweden and the papacy from 1523. Four years later, at the Diet of Västerås, the king succeeded in forcing the diet to accept his dominion over the national church. The king was given possession of all church property, church appointments required royal approval, the clergy were subject to the civil law, and the "pure Word of God" was to be preached in the churches and taught in the schools – effectively granting official sanction to Lutheran ideas.

Denmark

Under the reign of Frederick I (1523–33), Denmark
Denmark remained officially Roman Catholic. But though Frederick initially pledged to persecute Lutherans, he soon adopted a policy of protecting Lutheran preachers and reformers, of whom the most famous was Hans Tausen . During his reign, Lutheranism made significant inroads among the Danish population. Frederick's son, Christian, was openly Lutheran, which prevented his election to the throne upon his father's death. In 1536, the authority of the Roman Catholic bishops was terminated by national assembly. The next year, following his victory in the Count\'s War , he became king as Christian III and continued the Reformation of the state church with assistance of Johannes Bugenhagen .

Iceland

Main article: Icelandic Reformation

Luther 's influence had already reached Iceland
Iceland before King Christian's decree. The Germans
Germans fished near Iceland's coast, and the Hanseatic League engaged in commerce with the Icelanders. These Germans
Germans raised a Lutheran
Lutheran church in Hafnarfjörður as early as 1533. Through German trade connections, many young Icelanders studied in Hamburg
Hamburg . In 1538, when the kingly decree of the new Church ordinance reached Iceland, bishop Ögmundur and his clergy denounced it, threatening excommunication for anyone subscribing to the German 'heresy'. In 1539, the King sent a new governor to Iceland, Klaus von Mervitz , with a mandate to introduce reform and take possession of church property. Von Mervitz seized a monastery in Viðey with the help of his sheriff, Dietrich of Minden , and his soldiers. They drove the monks out and seized all their possessions, for which they were promptly excommunicated by Ögmundur.

ENGLAND

Main article: English Reformation

Church Of England

Main articles: Church of England and Anglicanism Henry VIII broke England's ties with the Catholic Church, becoming the sole head of the English Church.

The separation of the Church of England (or Anglican Church) from Rome under Henry VIII , beginning in 1529 and completed in 1537, brought England alongside this broad Reformation movement; however, religious changes in the English national church proceeded more conservatively than elsewhere in Europe. Reformers in the Church of England alternated, for decades, between sympathies for ancient Catholic tradition and more Reformed
Reformed principles, gradually developing, within the context of robustly Protestant
Protestant doctrine, a tradition considered a middle way (_via media _) between the Roman Catholic and Protestant
Protestant traditions.

The English Reformation followed a different course from the Reformation in continental Europe. There had long been a strong strain of anti-clericalism. England had already given rise to the Lollard movement of John Wycliffe , which played an important part in inspiring the Hussites
Hussites in Bohemia
Bohemia . Lollardy was suppressed and became an underground movement, so the extent of its influence in the 1520s is difficult to assess. The different character of the English Reformation came rather from the fact that it was driven initially by the political necessities of Henry VIII.

Henry had once been a sincere Roman Catholic and had even authored a book strongly criticising Luther. His wife, Catherine of Aragon , bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary . Henry strongly wanted a male heir, and many of his subjects might have agreed, if only because they wanted to avoid another dynastic conflict like the Wars of the Roses . Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer proved essential in the development of the English Reformation.

King Henry decided to remove the Church of England from the authority of Rome. In 1534, the Act of Supremacy recognized Henry as "the only Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England". Between 1535 and 1540, under Thomas Cromwell , the policy known as the Dissolution of the Monasteries was put into effect. The veneration of some saints , certain pilgrimages and some pilgrim shrines were also attacked. Huge amounts of church land and property passed into the hands of the Crown and ultimately into those of the nobility and gentry. The vested interest thus created made for a powerful force in support of the dissolutions.

There were some notable opponents to the Henrician Reformation, such as Thomas More
Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher , who were executed for their opposition. There was also a growing party of reformers who were imbued with the Calvinistic, Lutheran
Lutheran and Zwinglian doctrines now current on the Continent. When Henry died he was succeeded by his Protestant
Protestant son Edward VI , who, through his empowered councillors (with the King being only nine years old at his succession and fifteen at his death) the Duke of Somerset and the Duke of Northumberland, ordered the destruction of images in churches, and the closing of the chantries . Under Edward VI the Church of England moved closer to continental Protestantism.

Yet, at a popular level, religion in England was still in a state of flux. Following a brief Roman Catholic restoration during the reign of Mary (1553–1558), a loose consensus developed during the reign of Elizabeth I , though this point is one of considerable debate among historians. This " Elizabethan Religious Settlement
Elizabethan Religious Settlement " largely formed Anglicanism into a distinctive church tradition. The compromise was uneasy and was capable of veering between extreme Calvinism on one hand and Roman Catholicism on the other. But compared to the bloody and chaotic state of affairs in contemporary France, it was relatively successful, in part because Queen Elizabeth lived so long, until the Puritan Revolution or English Civil War in the 17th century.

Church Of Wales

Main article: Church in Wales

Bishop Richard Davies and dissident Protestant
Protestant cleric John Penry introduced Calvinist theology to Wales. In 1588, the Bishop of Llandaff published the entire Bible
Bible into the Welsh language
Welsh language . The translation had a significant impact upon the Welsh population and helped to firmly establish Protestantism among the Welsh people . The Welsh Protestants used the model of the Synod of Dort of 1618–1619. Calvinism developed through the Puritan period, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, and within Wales' Methodist movement. However few copies of Calvin's were available before mid 19th century.

Puritan Movement

Main article: Puritans
Puritans Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was a devout Puritan and military leader, who came to power in the Commonwealth of England, Scotland
Scotland and Ireland.

The success of the Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation on the Continent and the growth of a Puritan party dedicated to further Protestant
Protestant reform polarised the Elizabethan Age , although it was not until the 1640s that England underwent religious strife comparable to what its neighbours had suffered some generations before.

The early _ Puritan movement_ (late 16th–17th centuries) was Reformed
Reformed or Calvinist and was a movement for reform in the Church of England . Its origins lay in the discontent with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement . The desire was for the Church of England to resemble more closely the Protestant
Protestant churches of Europe, especially Geneva
Geneva . The Puritans
Puritans objected to ornaments and ritual in the churches as idolatrous (vestments, surplices, organs, genuflection), which they castigated as "popish pomp and rags". (See Vestments controversy .) They also objected to ecclesiastical courts. Their refusal to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of the _ Book
Book of Common Prayer _ and the imposition of its liturgical order by legal force and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.

The later Puritan movement, often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists , eventually led to the formation of various reformed denominations .

The most famous emigration to America was the migration of Puritan separatists from the Anglican Church of England. They fled first to Holland, and then later to America to establish the English colony of Massachusetts in New England, which later became one of the original United States. These Puritan separatists were also known as "the Pilgrims ". After establishing a colony at Plymouth (which became part of the colony of Massachusetts) in 1620, the Puritan pilgrims received a charter from the King of England
King of England that legitimised their colony, allowing them to do trade and commerce with merchants in England, in accordance with the principles of mercantilism . The Puritans persecuted those of other religious faiths. Quaker Mary Dyer
Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs . Executions ceased in 1661 when King Charles II explicitly forbade Massachusetts from executing anyone for professing Quakerism. In 1647, Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting any Jesuit Roman Catholic priests from entering territory under Puritan jurisdiction. Any suspected person who could not clear himself was to be banished from the colony; a second offense carried a death penalty.

The Pilgrims held radical Protestant
Protestant disapproval of Christmas
Christmas , and its celebration was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681. The ban was revoked in 1681 by the English-appointed governor Edmund Andros , who also revoked a Puritan ban on festivities on Saturday nights. Nevertheless, it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating Christmas
Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.

SCOTLAND

Main articles: Scottish Reformation and Church of Scotland
Scotland John Knox was a leading figure in the Scottish Reformation.

The Reformation in Scotland's case culminated ecclesiastically in the establishment of a church along reformed lines, and politically in the triumph of English influence over that of France. John Knox
John Knox is regarded as the leader of the Scottish reformation.

The Reformation Parliament of 1560 repudiated the pope's authority by the Papal Jurisdiction Act 1560 , forbade the celebration of the Mass and approved a Protestant
Protestant Confession of Faith
Confession of Faith . It was made possible by a revolution against French hegemony under the regime of the regent Mary of Guise , who had governed Scotland
Scotland in the name of her absent daughter Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (then also Queen of France).

Although Protestantism triumphed relatively easily in Scotland, the exact form of Protestantism remained to be determined. The 17th century saw a complex struggle between Presbyterianism (particularly the Covenanters ) and Episcopalianism . The Presbyterians eventually won control of the Church of Scotland
Scotland , which went on to have an important influence on Presbyterian churches worldwide, but Scotland retained a relatively large Episcopalian minority .

FRANCE

Main articles: Huguenot , Reformed
Reformed Church of France
France , and French Wars of Religion Although a Roman Catholic clergyman himself, Cardinal Richelieu allied France
France with Protestant
Protestant states.

Protestantism also spread from the German lands into France, where the Protestants were nicknamed _ Huguenots
Huguenots _; this eventually led to decades of civil warfare.

Though not personally interested in religious reform, Francis I (reigned 1515–1547) initially maintained an attitude of tolerance, in accordance with his interest in the humanist movement. This changed in 1534 with the Affair of the Placards . In this act, Protestants denounced the Catholic Mass in placards that appeared across France, even reaching the royal apartments. The issue of religious faith having been thrown into the arena of politics, Francis came to view the movement as a threat to the kingdom's stability. This led to the first major phase of anti- Protestant
Protestant persecution in France, in which the _ Chambre Ardente _ ("Burning Chamber") was established (1535) within the Parlement of Paris to deal with the rise in prosecutions for heresy. Several thousand French Protestants fled the country, most notably John Calvin
John Calvin , who emigrated to Basel in 1535 before eventually settling in Geneva
Geneva in 1536.

Calvin continued to take an interest in the religious affairs of his native land and, from his base in Geneva, beyond the reach of the French kings, regularly trained pastors to lead congregations in France. Despite heavy persecution by King Henry II of France
Henry II of France (reigned 1547–1559), the Reformed
Reformed Church of France
France , largely Calvinist in direction, made steady progress across large sections of the nation, in the urban bourgeoisie and parts of the aristocracy , appealing to people alienated by the obduracy and the complacency of the Catholic establishment. Saint
Saint Bartholomew\'s Day massacre , painting by François Dubois
François Dubois

French Protestantism, though its appeal increased under persecution, came to acquire a distinctly political character, made all the more obvious by the conversions of nobles during the 1550s. This established the preconditions for a series of destructive and intermittent conflicts, known as the Wars of Religion . The civil wars gained impetus with the sudden death of Henry II in 1559, which began a prolonged period of weakness for the French crown. Atrocity and outrage became the defining characteristics of the time, illustrated at their most intense in the St. Bartholomew\'s Day massacre of August 1572, when the Roman Catholic party annihilated between 30,000 and 100,000 Huguenots
Huguenots across France. The wars only concluded when Henry IV , himself a former Huguenot, issued the Edict of Nantes (1598), promising official toleration of the Protestant
Protestant minority, but under highly restricted conditions. Roman Catholicism remained the official state religion, and the fortunes of French Protestants gradually declined over the next century, culminating in Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), which revoked the Edict of Nantes and made Roman Catholicism the sole legal religion of France. In response to the Edict of Fontainebleau, Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg declared the Edict of Potsdam (October 1685), giving free passage to Huguenot refugees and tax-free status to them for ten years.

In the late 17th century many Huguenots
Huguenots fled to England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Switzerland, and the English and Dutch overseas colonies. A significant community in France
France remained in the Cévennes region. A separate Protestant
Protestant community, of the Lutheran
Lutheran faith, existed in the newly conquered (1639– ) province of Alsace
Alsace , its status not affected by the Edict of Fontainebleau.

SPAIN

The New Testament
New Testament translated by Enzinas, published in Antwerp (1543)

Spain
Spain had a different political and cultural milieu from its Western and Central European neighbors in several aspects during the early 16th century, and these unique aspects affected the mentality and the reaction of the nation towards the Protestant
Protestant Reformation. Spain, which had only recently managed to complete the reconquest of the Peninsula from the Moors
Moors in 1492, had been preoccupied with converting the Muslim and Jewish population of the newly conquered regions through the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition in 1478. The rulers of the nation stressed political, cultural, and religious unity, and by the time of the Lutheran
Lutheran Reformation the Spanish Inquisition was already 40 years old and had the capability of quickly dealing with any new movement that the Catholic Church
Catholic Church perceived or interpreted to be religious heterodoxy. Charles V did not wish to see Spain
Spain or the rest of Habsburg Europe
Europe divided, and in light of continual threat from the Ottomans, preferred to see the Catholic Church reform itself from within. This led to a Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation in Spain
Spain in the 1530s. During the 1520s, the Spanish Inquisition had created an atmosphere of suspicion and sought to root out any religious thought seen as suspicious. As early as 1521, the Pope
Pope had written a letter to the Spanish monarchy warning against allowing the unrest in Northern Europe
Europe to be repeated in Spain. Between 1520 and 1550, printing presses in Spain
Spain were tightly controlled, and any books of Protestant
Protestant teaching were prohibited.

Between 1530 and 1540 Protestantism in Spain
Spain was still able to gain followers clandestinely, and in cities such as Seville
Seville and Valladolid adherents would secretly meet at private houses to pray and study the Bible. Protestants in Spain
Spain were estimated at between 1000 and 3000, mainly among intellectuals who had seen writings such as those of Erasmus
Erasmus . Notable reformers included Dr. Juan Gil and Juan Pérez de Pineda who subsequently fled and worked alongside others such as Francisco de Enzinas
Francisco de Enzinas to translate the Greek New Testament
New Testament into the Spanish language, a task completed by 1556. Protestant
Protestant teachings were smuggled into Spain
Spain by Spaniards such as Julián Hernández, who in 1557 was condemned by the Inquisition and burnt at the stake. Under Philip II conservatives in the Spanish church tightened their grip, and those who refused to recant such as Rodrigo de Valer were condemned to life imprisonment. In May 1559, sixteen Spanish Lutherans were burnt at the stake: fourteen were strangled before being burnt, two were burnt alive. In October another thirty were executed. Spanish Protestants who were able to flee the country were to be found in at least a dozen cities in Europe
Europe such as Geneva
Geneva , where some of them embraced Calvinist teachings. Those who fled to England were given support by the Church of England .

Kingdom of Navarre , now mostly a part of Spain
Spain had French Huguenot monarchs including Henry IV of France
Henry IV of France and his mother, Jeanne III of Navarre , a devout Calvinist.

PORTUGAL

Reformation did not succeed in Portugal, as similar reasons to Spain prevented it from spreading.

NETHERLANDS

Main article: History of religion in the Netherlands Erasmus was a Catholic priest who inspired some of the Protestant
Protestant reformers.

The Reformation in the Netherlands, unlike in many other countries, was not initiated by the rulers of the Seventeen Provinces , but instead by multiple popular movements, which in turn were bolstered by the arrival of Protestant
Protestant refugees from other parts of the continent. While the Anabaptist movement enjoyed popularity in the region in the early decades of the Reformation, Calvinism, in the form of the Dutch Reformed
Reformed Church , became the dominant Protestant
Protestant faith in the country from the 1560s onward.

BELGIUM

Harsh persecution of Protestants by the Spanish government of Philip II contributed to a desire for independence in the provinces, which led to the Eighty Years\' War and, eventually, the separation of the largely Protestant
Protestant Dutch Republic
Dutch Republic from the Roman Catholic-dominated Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium
Belgium ).

LUXEMBOURG

Luxembourg
Luxembourg , a part of the Spanish Netherlands, remained Roman Catholic.

KINGDOM OF HUNGARY

Stephen Bocskay prevented the Holy Roman Emperor from imposing Roman Catholicism on Hungarians.

Much of the population of the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary adopted Protestantism during the 16th century. After the 1526 Battle of Mohács , the Hungarian people were disillusioned by the ability of the government to protect them and turned to the faith they felt would infuse them with the strength necessary to resist the invader. They found this in the teaching of the Protestant
Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther . The spread of Protestantism in the country was aided by its large ethnic German minority, which could understand and translate the writings of Martin Luther
Martin Luther . While Lutheranism gained a foothold among the German- and Slovak-speaking populations, Calvinism became widely accepted among ethnic Hungarians. Jiří Třanovský (1592–1637), the "Luther of the Slavs" who was active in Bohemia
Bohemia , Moravia
Moravia , Poland
Poland and Slovakia
Slovakia .

In the more independent northwest the rulers and priests, protected now by the Habsburg Monarchy , which had taken the field to fight the Turks, defended the old Roman Catholic faith. They dragged the Protestants to prison and the stake wherever they could. Such strong measures only fanned the flames of protest, however. Leaders of the Protestants included Matthias Biro Devai, Michael Sztarai, and Stephen Kis Szegedi.

Protestants likely formed a majority of Hungary's population at the close of the 16th century, but Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation efforts in the 17th century reconverted a majority of the kingdom to Roman Catholicism. A significant Protestant
Protestant minority remained, most of it adhering to the Calvinist faith.

In 1558 the Transylvanian Diet of Turda
Turda declared free practice of both the Catholic and Lutheran
Lutheran religions, but prohibited Calvinism . Ten years later, in 1568, the Diet extended this freedom, declaring that "It is not allowed to anybody to intimidate anybody with captivity or expelling for his religion". Four religions (Unitarianism became official in 1583, following the faith of the only Unitarian King John II Sigismund Zápolya 1541–1571) were declared as accepted (recepta) religions, while Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Christianity was "tolerated" (though the building of stone Orthodox churches was forbidden). During the Thirty Years\' War , Royal (Habsburg) Hungary joined the Roman Catholic side, until Transylvania
Transylvania joined the Protestant
Protestant side.

There were a series of other successful and unsuccessful anti-Habsburg (requiring equal rights and freedom for all Christian denominations) uprisings between 1604 and 1711; the uprisings were usually organised from Transylvania. The constrained Habsburg Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation efforts in the 17th century reconverted the majority of the kingdom to Roman Catholicism.

IRELAND

Main article: Reformation in Ireland
Ireland A devout Roman Catholic, Mary I of England
Mary I of England started the first Plantations of Ireland
Ireland , which, ironically, soon came to be associated with Protestantism.

The Reformation in Ireland
Ireland was a movement for the reform of religious life and institutions that was introduced into Ireland
Ireland by the English administration at the behest of King Henry VIII of England. His desire for an annulment of his marriage was known as the King\'s Great Matter . Ultimately Pope
Pope Clement VII refused the petition; consequently it became necessary for the King to assert his lordship over the Roman Catholic Church
Catholic Church in his realm to give legal effect to his wishes. The English Parliament confirmed the King's supremacy over the Church in the Kingdom of England. This challenge to Papal supremacy resulted in a breach with the Roman Catholic Church. By 1541, the Irish Parliament had agreed to the change in status of the country from that of a Lordship to that of Kingdom of Ireland
Ireland .

Unlike similar movements for religious reform on the continent of Europe, the various phases of the English Reformation as it developed in Ireland
Ireland were largely driven by changes in government policy, to which public opinion in England gradually accommodated itself. However, a number of factors complicated the adoption of the religious innovations in Ireland; the majority of the population there adhered to the Roman Catholic Church. However, in the city of Dublin
Dublin the reformation took hold under the auspices of George Browne .

ITALY

Further information: Reformation in Italy _ Waldensian symbol Lux lucet in tenebris_ ("Light glows in the darkness")

Word of the Protestant
Protestant reformers reached Italy in the 1520s but never caught on. Its development was stopped by the Counter-Reformation, the Inquisition and also popular disinterest. Not only was the Church highly aggressive in seeking out and suppressing heresy, but there was a shortage of Protestant
Protestant leadership. No one translated the Bible
Bible into Italian; few tracts were written. No core of Protestantism emerged. The few preachers who did take an interest in "Lutheranism," as it was called in Italy, were suppressed or went into exile to northern countries where their message was well received. As a result, the Reformation exerted almost no lasting influence in Italy, except for strengthening the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church and motivating the Counter-Reformation.

Some Protestants left Italy and became outstanding activists of the European Reformation, mainly in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g. Giorgio Biandrata
Giorgio Biandrata , Bernardino Ochino , Giovanni Alciato, Giovanni Battista Cetis, Fausto Sozzini , Francesco Stancaro and Giovanni Valentino Gentile ), who propagated Nontrinitarianism there and were chief instigators of the movement of Polish Brethren
Polish Brethren .

In 1532 the Waldensians adhered to the Reformation, adopting the Calvinist theology. The Waldensian Church survived in the Western Alps through many persecutions and remains a Protestant
Protestant church in Italy.

POLAND "> Jan Łaski sought unity between various Christian churches in the Commonwealth, and participated in the English Reformation.

In the first half of the 16th century, the enormous Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a country of many creeds, but Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church remained the dominating religion. Reformation reached Poland
Poland in the 1520s and quickly gained popularity among mostly German-speaking inhabitants of such major cities as Gdańsk
Gdańsk , Toruń and Elbląg . In Koenigsberg , in 1530, a Polish-language edition of Luther\'s Small Catechism was published. The Duchy of Prussia
Duchy of Prussia , which was a Polish fief , emerged as a key center of the movement, with numerous publishing houses issuing not only Bibles, but also catechisms, in German, Polish and Lithuanian.

Lutheranism gained popularity in the northern part of the country, while Calvinism caught the interest of the nobility (known as szlachta ), mainly in Lesser Poland
Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania . Several publishing houses were opened in Lesser Poland
Poland in the mid-16th century in such locations as Słomniki and Raków . At that time, Mennonites and Czech Brothers came to Poland, with the latter settling mostly in Greater Poland
Poland around Leszno
Leszno . In 1565, the Polish Brethren
Polish Brethren appeared as yet another reformation movement.

The Commonwealth was unique in Europe
Europe in the 16th century for its widespread tolerance confirmed by the Warsaw Confederation . In 1563, the Brest Bible was published (see also Bible
Bible translations into Polish ). The period of tolerance ended during the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa , who was under the strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits . After the Deluge , and other wars of the mid-17th century in which all enemies of Poland
Poland were either Protestant
Protestant or Orthodox Christians, the Poles' attitude changed, and the Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation prevailed: in 1658 the Polish Brethren
Polish Brethren were forced to leave the country, and in 1666, the Sejm
Sejm banned apostasy from Catholicism to any other religion, under punishment of death. Finally, in 1717, the Silent Sejm
Sejm banned non-Catholics from becoming deputies of the Parliament.

Among most important Protestants of the Commonwealth were Mikołaj Rej , Marcin Czechowic , Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski
Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Symon Budny .

SLOVENIA

Primož Trubar
Primož Trubar

Primož Trubar
Primož Trubar is notable for consolidating the Slovene language and is considered to be the key figure of Slovenian cultural history and in many aspects a major Slovene historical personality. He was the key figure of the Protestant
Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands , as he was its founder and its first superintendent. The first books in Slovene, _ Catechismus _ and _Abecedarium _, were written by Trubar.

CROATIA

Lutheranism reached northern parts of the country.

SERBIA

Vojvodina turned partially Lutheran
Lutheran .

GREECE

The Protestant
Protestant teachings of the Western Church were also briefly adopted within the Eastern Orthodox Church through the Greek Patriarch Cyril Lucaris
Cyril Lucaris in 1629 with the publishing of the _Confessio_ (Calvinistic doctrine) in Geneva
Geneva . Motivating factors in their decision to adopt aspects of the Reformation included the historical rivalry and mistrust between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic church along with their concerns of Jesuit
Jesuit priests entering Greek lands in their attempts to propagate the teachings of the Counter-Reformation
Counter-Reformation to the Greek populace. He subsequently sponsored Maximos of Gallipoli 's translation of the New Testament
New Testament into the Modern Greek language and was published in Geneva
Geneva in 1638. Upon Lucaris's death in 1638, the conservative factions within the Eastern Orthodox Church held two synods: the Synod of Constantinople (1638) and Synod of Jassy
Synod of Jassy (1642) criticizing the reforms and in the 1672 convocation led by Dositheos , they officially condemned the Calvinistic doctrines.

SPREAD

The Protestant
Protestant Reformation at its peak, superimposed on modern European borders

CONCLUSION AND LEGACY

END OF THE REFORMATION

There is no universal agreement on the exact or approximate date the Protestant
Protestant Reformation ended. Various interpretations emphasize different dates, entire periods, or argue that the Reformation never really ended. However, there are a few popular interpretations that are used by large groups of observers.

* Historically, the Peace of Westphalia is considered to be the event that ended the Reformation. This is the most commonly held interpretation; * According to other historical interpretation, the Reformation could truly be considered to have ended in the middle 18th century, as the Peace of Westphalia did not specify, nor did it mean that it concluded; that is around time the First Great Awakening (1730–1755) took place. People who hold this interpretation often argue that the emergence of Pietism
Pietism prolonged the Reformation up to this point; * Some argue that the Reformation never ended as new groups have splintered from the Catholic Church
Catholic Church (e.g., Old Catholics, Polish National Catholic Church, etc.), as well as all the various Protestant churches that exist today. No group splintering from the Catholic Church since the 17th century has done so on the basis of the same issues animating the Protestant
Protestant Reformation, however.

Thirty Years\' War: 1618–1648

Treaty of Westphalia allowed Calvinism to be freely exercised

The Reformation led to a series of religious wars that culminated in the Thirty Years\' War (1618–1648), which devastated much of Germany , killing between 25% and 40% of its entire population. Roman Catholic House of Habsburg
House of Habsburg and its allies fought against the Protestant
Protestant princes of Germany, supported at various times by Denmark, Sweden
Sweden and France. The Habsburgs, who ruled Spain, Austria, the Crown of Bohemia
Bohemia , Hungary , Slovene Lands , the Spanish Netherlands and much of Germany and Italy, were staunch defenders of the Roman Catholic Church. Some historians believe that the era of the Reformation came to a close when Roman Catholic France
France allied itself with Protestant
Protestant states against the Habsburg dynasty. For the first time since the days of Martin Luther, political and national convictions again outweighed religious convictions in Europe.

Two main tenets of the Peace of Westphalia , which ended the Thirty Years' War, were:

* All parties would now recognise the Peace of Augsburg of 1555, by which each prince would have the right to determine the religion of his own state, the options being Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and now Calvinism (the principle of _cuius regio, eius religio _). * Christians living in principalities where their denomination was _not_ the established church were guaranteed the right to practice their faith in public during allotted hours and in private at their will.

The treaty also effectively ended the Papacy's pan-European political power. Pope
Pope Innocent X declared the treaty "null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all times" in his bull _Zelo Domus Dei_. European sovereigns, Roman Catholic and Protestant
Protestant alike, ignored his verdict.

CONSEQUENCES OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

The following outcomes of the Protestant
Protestant Reformation regarding human capital formation, the Protestant
Protestant ethic , economic development , governance , and "dark" outcomes have been identified by scholars:

Human Capital Formation

* Higher literacy rates. * Lower gender gap in school enrollment and literacy rates. * Higher primary school enrollment. * Higher public spending on schooling and better educational performance of military conscripts. * Higher capability in reading, numeracy, essay writing, and history.

Protestant
Protestant Ethic

* More hours worked. * Divergent work attitudes of Protestant
Protestant and Catholics. * Fewer referenda on leisure, state intervention, and redistribution in Swiss cantons with more Protestants. * Lower life satisfaction when unemployed. * Pro-market attitudes. * Income differences between Protestants and Catholics.

Economic Development

* Different levels of income tax revenue per capita, % of labor force in manufacturing and services, and incomes of male elementary school teachers. * Protestant
Protestant cities grew more. * Greater entrepreneurship among religious minorities in Protestant states. * Different social ethics.

Governance

* The Reformation has been credited as a key factor in the development of the state system. * The Reformation has been credited as a key factor in the formation of transnational advocacy movements. * The Reformation impacted the Western legal tradition. * Establishment of State churches. * Poor relief and social welfare regimes.

Negative Outcomes

* Witch trials became more common in areas where Protestants and Catholics contested the religious market. * Protestants were far more likely to vote for Nazis than their Catholic German counterparts. Christopher J. Probst, in his book _Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant
Protestant Church in Nazi Germany_ (2012), shows that a large number of German Lutheran
Lutheran clergy and theologians during the Nazi Third Reich used Luther's hostile publications towards the Jews and Judaism to justify at least in part the anti-Semitic policies of the National Socialists. * Higher suicide rate and greater suicide acceptability.

HISTORIOGRAPHY

Margaret C. Jacob argues that there has been a dramatic shift in the historiography of the Reformation. Until the 1960s, historians focused their attention largely on the great leaders and theologians of the 16th century, especially Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli. Their ideas were studied in depth. However, the rise of the new social history in the 1960s look at history from the bottom up, not from the top down. Historians began to concentrate on the values, beliefs and behavior of the people at large. She finds, "in contemporary scholarship, the Reformation is now seen as a vast cultural upheaval, a social and popular movement, textured and rich because of its diversity."