400,000 Ex-Anglicans Want Vatican Unity Oct 22, 2009
The Popes move is regarded by some Anglicans as one of the most dramatic developments in Protestant christendom since the Reformation gave birth to the Church of England 400 years ago. Archbishop John Hepworth, the twice-married Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, who led negotiations with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, said he was profoundly moved by the Popes decision and would immediately seek the approval of the groups 400,000 members worldwide to... (Newsmax)
Anglo-Catholics rejoice as Pope offers return to fold Oct 22, 2009
Bishop Davies said it was the most significant decision about the two churches since the 16th-century Reformation, and might provide an amicable parting of the ways for Anglo-Catholics. It's really radical,'' he said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
An Astronomer's Astronomer: Kepler's Revolutionary Achievements in 1609 Rival Galileo's Oct 21, 2009
In 1600, as a consequence of the religious and political unrest during the Protestant Reformation, Kepler lost his job at Graz. He made his way to Prague, where Brahe was the court astronomer to Emperor Rudolph II. Prague was where Kepler would spend some of his most productive years. (Scientific American)
Today in History - Oct. 31 Oct 20, 2009
On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. On this date. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
An interview with Hilary Mantel, author of ‘Wolf Hall’ Oct 18, 2009
In Wolf Hall, the winner of this year s Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel, with consummate skill and wit, brings to life the court of King Henry VIII and the person of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to the king and architect of the Protestant Reformation. Spanning the years 1500 to 1535, the novel can convey details such as the texture of a sleeve, the weight of a sword, the meaning of a glance, even as it encompasses tumultuous political events and court intrigues, all perceived through the lens of... (Boston Globe)
Joan Acocella on Hilary Mantel Oct 12, 2009
He not only wrote and pushed through Parliament the laws that accomplished the English Reformation; he did much of the King s dirty work. When Henry decides that he needs the castle in which he has stowed his discarded wife, Katherine of Aragon, Cromwell is the one sent to inform the Queen that she is being relocated. (New Yorker)
Sons and daughters of the Southern Cross Oct 10, 2009
Smee brings his own political attitude to the work, which he presents as ''an attack on the black-armband brigade'' and an affirmation of the ''brilliant success'' of England's ''sociological experiment in the reformation and transformation'' of its criminal classes. There is more to the story than Englishmen coming out here and slaughtering Aborigines,'' he says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
The Berlin Wall: what really made it fall Oct 9, 2009
It was just around the corner from the St. Thomas Church where Johann Sebastian Bach was once cantor, and where Martin Luther introduced the Protestant Reformation to Leipzig in 1539. The Monday peace prayers followed a joint call by young East and West German theologians for removal from German soil of both NATO and (more discreetly, if more daringly) Soviet nuclear weapons. (Christian Science Monitor)
Britain's Heritage Suffers in Reces... Oct 9, 2009
Lincoln Cathedral, which English art critic John Ruskin called out and out the most precious piece of architecture in the British Isles", receives about a quarter of its income for conservation work from English Heritage and is currently in the middle of major conservation work. Why is a Cathedral Called a Cathedral? There are two kinds of cathedrals in Britain, Roman Catholic and Anglican. The oldest are most of the Anglican cathedrals, dating back to medieval times or earlier and which until... (Suite101.com)
The Antichrist in Christian Church ... Oct 5, 2009
Until the 16th Century Reformation, excepting occasional heretical threats, the Church dominated religious belief and tradition ... It was the Reformation that would equate the Antichrist with the Medieval church itself. (Suite101.com)
German Cities Worth Touring - Witte... Oct 2, 2009
Visit the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation in Wittenberg, Germany ... Now it hosts an extensive museum dedicated to Luther and the Reformation. (Suite101.com)
Pirate Party hits our shores Oct 1, 2009
Agree with reformation of the patenting laws, anti internet censorship and changes to DRM.. not sure about the name. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Romans crushed Sep 30, 2009
"Maybe without the Varian disaster there would never have been the separation of west and east Frankish kingdoms, never the confrontation between the German kings and the popes, never the Reformation, never the conflict between Germany and France. More than 5,000 objects have been found at the site "If Europe to the Elbe had been shaped by Romanic culture and language, the roadmap of European history would have changed in many parts. This doesn't mean that it would all be better - other... (BBC News -- Europe)
Pope: Remember Christian tradition Sep 30, 2009
In a meeting with other Christians, he also mentioned Jan Hus, a 15th century religious reformer seen as a forerunner of the Protestant Reformation who was burned at the stake. He is considered a national hero here. (USA Today -- News)
Meetings, events Sep 30, 2009
Fall Festival, 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 3 at Augustana Lutheran Church, Reformation Hall, 6th and Court streets. Bake sale and pie auction. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Pope Benedict to Confront Secularism on His First Visit to Czech Republic Sep 25, 2009
Jan Hus, a forerunner of the Reformation, was burned at the stake by Catholic officials in Constance in 1415, becoming a national martyr. His death helped set off two centuries of religious wars that devastated the area. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Pope to visit Britain in 2010 Sep 24, 2009
Page last updated at 22:02 GMT, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 23:02 UK. The last papal visit was in May 1982. (BBC News -- UK)
Museum of American Finance Hosts Talk with Henry Kaufman on The Road to Financial Reformation Sep 19, 2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On Tuesday, September 22, the Museum of American Finance will continue its 2009 Henry Kaufman Financial History and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series with a talk by Dr. Henry Kaufman on his new book, The Road to Financial Reformation ... In The Road to Financial Reformation, Dr. Kaufman, who has spent a lifetime entrenched in the world of finance, provides an insightful account of the history and impact of post-World War II financial markets on the economy - what... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Books: A history of Christianity Sep 18, 2009
So for Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford don who specialises in the Reformation, the challenge of chronicling Christian history in just over 1,000 pages is manifold. His narrative may not quite hold together, but it has very good bits. (The Economist)
Importance of building trust in E Asia Sep 17, 2009
Instead, suspicion and hostility have marked the periods of their socio-economic reformation. Besides, eastern Asia's renaissance didn't bring the countries in the region closer. (Xinhuanet, China)
School Board president runs to improve graduation rates Sep 16, 2009
He talks about sweeping trends across hundreds of years of Western history: Reverberations of the Protestant Reformation in 1600s England on modern political rhetoric; the pedagogical need for sequential, linear teaching in some core subjects and the contrary influence of nonlinear learning styles from technology such as the Internet; the gradual loss of professional satisfaction from work due to the transition from an industrial economy to a service and information economy that yields less... (Juneau Empire)
Calvin's wowser label not deserved Sep 14, 2009
The greatest theologian of the Reformation had a profound influence on the modern West, as I opined in the day after his 500th birthday earlier this year ... By Calvin's time, the Reformation was in danger of falling into anarchy. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The road to insurrection Sep 14, 2009
Things changed a little with what Mr Horspool correctly describes as the convoluted, serve-and-return history of the English Reformation. The introduction of religion into politics raised the stakes considerably the Protestant John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury under Elizabeth I, warned that disobedience to the prince in civil matters is disobedience to God. (The Economist)
DVD Review: The Tudors (Season 3) Sep 13, 2009
The English Reformation is in full swing with the Dissolution of the Monasteries as Thomas Cromwell [James Frain] transfers their wealth into the royal treasury. Jane Seymour. (Suite101.com)
Katharine of Aragon Sep 9, 2009
With the Pope refusing to annul the marriage between Henry VIII and Katharine, the King broke away from the Catholic Church (known as The Reformation) and appointed himself the head of the new Church of England, annulling his first marriage and having his second marriage declared valid. The Death of Katharine of Aragon. (Suite101.com)
Leisure History Sep 7, 2009
" This is obviously a definition, which suggests that the word had only recently come into use. It is also important to note that the "week's work" is described as ending on the Saturday afternoon. It was precisely this early ending to the week that produced a holiday period of a day and a half the first weekend. This innovation and it was a uniquely British one occurred in roughly the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Throughout the eighteenth century the workweek ended on Saturday... (The Atlantic Online)
Witchcraft in the American Colonies Sep 7, 2009
Oxford historian Keith Thomas classic study of religion and magic in England states that the Reformation had placed an unprecedented stress upon the reality of the Devil and the extent of his earthly dominion ... The absence of other accusations and trials even in other colonies founded on the basis of religious freedom, suggests that the belief and treatment of witchcraft in New England was unique to Puritan views and entrenched within specific Biblical and Reformation interpretations. (Suite101.com)
GUEST COLUMN: The Cornerstone of Health Care Sep 5, 2009
The concept we endorse was recently announced by the Mayo Clinic in its article titled "A Foundation for Health Care Reform Legislation" wherein a proposal for reformation of the current private health insurance system was outlined and included the following ... Accountable Care Organizations are the key to this reformation. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
A rising sun sets Sep 3, 2009
Taro Aso, the LDP's outgoing premier, who was crushingly defeated in Sunday's vote, is the great-great-grandson of Toshimichi Okubo, one of the three men who led the Meiji Reformation in the mid-1800s and who is widely regarded as a founding father of modern Japan ... Japan's premier-designate Yukio Hatoyama promises nothing short of a massive reformation, possibly as big as the Meiji Reformation some 150 years ago. (Asia Times Online)
Rejoinder: Tribal-based Churches; Do we need them? Aug 29, 2009
These movements were themselves the result of the Reformation which took place in the early 16th Century. The Basel Missionary Society was founded in 1815. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Malaysia Waits to Cane Beer-Drinking Woman Aug 25, 2009
Read the history of the church sanctioned witch burnings, heresy and blasphemy trials, inquisition, reformation and all the rest. The xtians probably had the most bloody gory history of all of them. (CBS News)
The Reformation in the Context of G... Aug 23, 2009
The Reformation in the Context of Global Change. The Reformation in the Context of Global Change ... The very page of human history into which the Protestant Reformation was born was a great century of global change. (Suite101.com)
Lutheran Gay Clergy Vote Tests Mainline Churches Aug 23, 2009
The ELCA's move is especially jarring and significant because "it is viewed by all of us as one of the more Reformation-rooted, broadly orthodox denominations" and takes its theology seriously, said Richard Mouw, president of the multi-denominational and evangelical Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif ... While Lutherans in Europe and Scandinavia are to the left of the ELCA on homosexuality, African and Asian Lutherans have been taught a more conservative line by missionaries and... (Time.com)
‘On Kindness’ explores why we bothering being nice Aug 23, 2009
Added to this is a capsule history of the practice of kindness, with stops at the early Christian church, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Victorians, Darwin, and Max Weber. The remainder of the book explores the psychology of kindness, drawing on the attachment theory of psychoanalysts like John Bowlby and Donald Winnicott. (Boston Globe)
Hutchison launches bid to unseat Gov. Perry Aug 21, 2009
Hutchison also called for a reformation of the state education system to reduce the dropout rate and increase the quality of training and certification for teachers around the state. As governor, I want to help create an education system that prepares our children for the jobs of tomorrow, she said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
No justice for MacPhail family Aug 21, 2009
No surprise that Mayor Shirley Franklin s administration has seen no great reformation, as AJC reporter D.L. Bennett found. Exceedingly rare is the elected official who can get past the constant naysayers, unions and bureaucrats to turn talk into action. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Nigeria: ...still On Anambra Aug 13, 2009
But what impresses me most is his practical advocacy for reformation and restoration of integrity in the conduct government business. Well-meaning Anambra people readily point to the numerous roads he has built or rehabilitated, the schools and hospitals he has reclaimed to respectability, and the various public institutions he has erected - like the magnificent state secretariat, business parks, judges quarters, housing estates and many others. (allAfrica.com)
In Dunant’s ‘Sacred Hearts,’ a story of thwarted love and church intrigue Aug 9, 2009
But the church, responding to criticism by the Protestant Reformation, was preparing to repress what limited freedoms the nuns enjoyed, changing their lives forever. In Alia Yunis s poignant, hilarious first novel, The Night Counter, purple-haired, 85-year-old Fatimah Abdulla tells her life story to Scheherazade, the legendary storyteller from The Arabian Nights, who appears every night in the elderly woman s Los Angeles bedroom. (Boston Globe)
Public invited to learn more about Mormon faith Aug 8, 2009
notsofast wrote on Aug 7, 2009 5:29 PM:" From the History of the Church Vol. 1, chapters 1-518 My object in going to ainquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)and which I should join. 19 I... (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
The First Church of the Rapture Aug 7, 2009
Rachel wrote on Aug 6, 2009 5:02 PM:" Um, going backwards, the Baptists began with the Reformation. That was a good 1,000 years after the letter to the Church in Philadelphia (in the Middle East) was written. It's a pretty big stretch to go assuming Jesus meant Baptists in partiuclar. And it's more than a stretch to teach Jesus was excluding most all but Baptists. This guy is an embarassment to honest biblically based Christians. You'd have to ask God what He thinks of him. But it's not guiding... (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Bagging religion is hardly dangerous Aug 4, 2009
Leigh Sales, one of the ABCs better journalists, was out of her depth in her essay On Doubt, in which she said Martin Luther, the doctrinaire founder of the German Protestant Reformation, was into self-doubt. Likewise with Julian Morrow, who in The Chasers War on Everything last week, declared: "The more you read about America, it is an amazingly religious place". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Suzette Martinez Standring: A glimpse of early colonists religion Aug 1, 2009
Part of the larger English Reformation of the 16th century, Puritans were separatists who rejected the Church of England, whose practices they viewed as not Bible-based. To them, memorized prayers, hymns (except for Psalms), the recitation of creeds, and the celebration of Christmas and saints days had no scriptural basis. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Budget Geneva: Dips in the lake, free concerts Jul 30, 2009
Bastions Park, a short walk from the Old Town, features the Reformation Wall a monument backed against part of the city's ancient defensive walls, that boasts 16-foot high statues of Calvin and three other major leaders in the Protestant Reformation. Across town you can see the United Nations' Palais des Nations, which hosts peace, disarmament and other international talks. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
What the Bible says Jul 30, 2009
Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
After Darkness, Light! Jul 27, 2009
The Protestant Reformation and the Inauguration of the Modern World ... A Period of Darkness that Necessitated the Protestant Reformation ... For the most part, Medieval Christendom had been engulfed by a thick cloud of darkness until the Protestant Reformation. (Suite101.com)
Religion, Politics and Ethnicity-1 Jul 25, 2009
He openly challenged certain practices of the Church which gave rise to the Reformation movement ... Islam therefore needs to go through its reformation where the so-called authority of the Imams and Mullahs and others would be challenged. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
At the scene00004000 of the grime Jul 24, 2009
But he and Lowenstein have made up and with Sejavka's band the Ears planning a reformation show next month, there has been plenty of handy cross-promotion. "I think Michael [Hutchence] did a pretty good job," Sejavka says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Christian church always has been emerging Jul 19, 2009
Martin Luther, the German monk who had ignited what became known as the Protestant Reformation, helped to crack the foundations of European society - the notion that there was one church and one state (albeit full of fractious nobles). By the time Calvin arrived on the scene, the issue was no longer how to tell the Roman Catholic Church that you disagreed with it. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Happy Birthday John Jul 11, 2009
Born five hundred years ago today, Calvin deepened the Protestant Reformation by building on Martin Luther's break from Rome, formulating a sternly ascetic version of Christian piety that, as Max Weber powerfully argued more than a century ago, inadvertently laid the psychological groundwork for the development of capitalism. Others have noted the surprising ways that Calvinist ideas helped to legitimize representative political institutions. (The American Conservative)
Today in History Jul 10, 2009
Five hundred years ago, on July 10, 1509, French theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born Jean Cauvin in Noyon, Picardy, France. On this date. (Yahoo News)
* FEATURE : Divided Geneva marks 500 years of Calvinist rigor Jul 10, 2009
However, local authorities have struggled to find the best way to celebrate the birth of the controversial French theologian and leader in the Protestant Reformation ... Its very revealing that Genevans like to speak of the city of Calvin, said Olivier Fatio, a professor at the Institute of the History of the Reformation. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Top Sights to See in Old Town Annec... Jul 10, 2009
The Renaissance-Gothic Cathedral St Pierre became the seat of the bishop of Geneva after the Reformation forced him out of the newly Protestant city. St Francois de Sales and St Jeanne de Chantal, the patron saints of Annecy, were originally buried in the Eglise St Francois near the H tel de Ville. (Suite101.com)
Gerson: Remembering first moon walk Jul 10, 2009
So was Martin Luther, whose courageous Protestant Reformation brought a whole new dimension to Christianity. And, I also think of two recent popes, in particular, who were amazing religious pioneers: Pope John XXIII, whose Second Vatican Council paved the way for a whole new understanding and respect between Catholics and Jews; and Pope John Paul II, whose monumental trip to Israel - to the Western Wall and Holocaust Memorial Museum - brought Catholic-Jewish relations to still another whole new... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Switzerland and the EU Jul 9, 2009
Reformation and Counter-Reformation had before then swept across the country, ultimately leading to a brief civil war in 1847. That conflict between the seven conservative Catholic cantons and the dozen or so liberal Protestant cantons included urban areas and those where the Napoleonic occupation at the beginning of the 19th century had triggered democratic reforms. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
College History Texts and Adult Edu... Jul 7, 2009
Naturally, this would include the great movements the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. Such efforts should not be viewed as an attempt to water down history or lower the standard, but to fit necessary facts into the wider scope of intellectual understanding. (Suite101.com)
Honduras' Interim Leader Blames Chavez Jul 3, 2009
Zelaya was calling for a vote on the constituional reformation. If the people he would have voted for the consitituional reform then it was following the law. (CBS News)
Sicilian Painter Mario Minniti Jul 2, 2009
The Counter Reformation Church was his most steadfast client, and Minniti painted many religious works at their behest, slowly developing his own style of Baroque realism, building on the foundations he d picked up from Caravaggio. His works, including Miracle at Naim, Saint Benedict, and Saint John the Baptist, can generally still be seen in their original settings, mainly in and around Syracuse, Messina, and Malta. (Suite101.com)
A great day for the tribe Jul 1, 2009
BANDON - In the same city where they first rejoiced the federal recognition and reformation of their tribe, members of the Coquille Indian Tribe reopened their arms to the community they've grown in since 1989 in celebration of 20 years of restoration. "We're part of this community. What happens to the community happens to us," said tribal member Cassie Ross, who serves as a member of the tribal council. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Antinomianism Jun 23, 2009
Heretical Beliefs in the Early Church. The word heresy has been utilized to indicate sectarianism in the Acts of the Apostles. (Suite101.com)
At stake in Iran uprising: trust in the Islamic Revolution Jun 22, 2009
"We are not against the Islamic system and its laws [but] against the deviations and lies, and we want to reform them; a reformation that returns us to the pure principles of the Islamic revolution," Mousavi said in a statement late on Saturday. He said the record 85 percent voter turnout for the presidential race was because of new hope to deal with "widespread social dissatisfaction" that "can target the bedrock of the revolution and the Islamic system.". (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Ancient Superstition and Religion Jun 22, 2009
16th Century Lutheran Visitation reports, made to outlying areas, disclosed that popular superstition was as vibrant as it had always been before the Reformation ... Ironically, when, during the English Reformation, Mary was removed from these grottoes, the local people returned to earlier, pagan and superstitious practices that still held importance in the rural under culture. (Suite101.com)
Silence Is Still Golden Jun 21, 2009
Even in advocating withdrawal he was blithely arguing that, hey, maybe what Iraq and the broader region need is a hideous sectarian bloodbath to precipitate some sort of Islamic Reformation. He was advocating opposite policies ( Send troops into Iraq. (The American Conservative)
500th birthday of 'Great Reformer' John Calvin nears Jun 20, 2009
A worker pushes part of a stage decoration next to a statue of John Calvin in front of the Reformation Wall in Geneva, Switzerland ... He returned in 1541 after receiving assurances of official support for his plans to complete a Reformation based on his teachings ... But it took more than 10 years before the Reformation consolidated its position against native discontent. (USA Today -- News)
Religion Calendar Jun 20, 2009
ODESSA'S PLACE: Christian band White Horse Reformation performing today, 6 p.m., 628 W. 18th St. Christian open-mic follows until 8:30 p.m. Free. Call 602-5375. (Erie Times-News, PA)
The natural beauty and attractions of Scottish Highlands Jun 18, 2009
Following the Reformation in the 1560s, the Privy Council issued instructions to local lairds to destroy 'images of idolatry. They interpreted this order as an excuse for widespread destruction and caused much damage to the cathedral. (India Times)
