Protestant Reformers

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The Protestant Reformers are those theologians, churchmen, and statesmen whose careers, works, and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Historically speaking, "Protestant" was the name given to those theologians, magnates, and delegations present at the Holy Roman Imperial Diet of Speyer in 1529 who protested the revocation of the suspension, granted at a prior Diet of Speyer in 1526, of Edict of Worms of 1521, which had outlawed Martin Luther and his followers.

The meaning of the label "Protestant" widened over time to embrace all Western Christians as distinguished from the Roman Catholic Church, except for the Anabaptists and other Radical Reformers. This reflected the widening spread of the Protestant Reformation over Europe into diversifying movements like Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Calvinism, and Arminianism. Today, all Western Christian denominations other than the Roman Catholic Church are loosely known as Protestant churches.

1 Precursors
2 Reformers proper
3 Radical Reformers
4 Counter-reformers
5 Second Front Reformers
6 See also

[edit] Precursors

There were a number of people who contributed to the development of the Reformation, but lived before it, including:

[edit] Reformers proper

Protestant Reformation
The Reformation History and origins History of Protestantism The 95 Theses Peasants' War Radical Reformation Movements and denominations Protestantism French Reformation Huguenots German Reformation Lutheranism Swiss Reformation Reformed Churches Calvinism Anabaptist Reformation in the Netherlands Mennonite English Reformation Church of England Anglicanism Puritans Scottish Reformation Presbyterianism Protestant Reformers Jan Hus (C, ~1369-1415) John Wycliffe (E, 1320–1384) Huldrych Zwingli (S, 1484-1531) William Tyndale (E, 1494-1536) Menno Simmons (N, ((1496–1561)) Martin Luther (G, 1483–1546) John Calvin (S, 1509–1564) Henry VIII (E, 1491-1547) Thomas Cranmer (E, 1489–1556) John Jewel (E, 1522-1571) John Knox (Sc, 1514?–1572) John Wesley (E, 1703–1791) Precursors Avignon Papacy (1309 to 1377) Western Schism (1378-1417) Hussite Wars (1420 to ~1434) Northern Renaissance German mysticism
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The Protestant Reformation, popularly thought to have begun on October 31, 1517 with the posting of Martin Luther's 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, divided Western Christendom, as distinguished from Eastern Christendom, into the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant churches.

There were a number of key reformers within the movement, including:

Martin Bucer
Heinrich Bullinger
John Calvin
Andreas von Carlstadt, later a Radical Reformer
Wolfgang Fabricius Capito
Martin Chemnitz
Thomas Cranmer
William Farel
Matthias Flacius
Caspar Hedio
Justus Jonas
John Knox
Jan Łaski
Martin Luther
Philipp Melanchthon
Johannes Oecolampadius
Peter Martyr
Joachim Vadian
Laurentius Petri
Olaus Petri
Pierre Viret
Huldrych Zwingli
Aonio Paleario

[edit] Radical Reformers

Because these reformers were those of the Radical Reformation and the Anabaptist movement, they have not been traditionally listed with the mainline Protestant reformers. (Compare the reformers of the "Second Front" of the Reformation below):

[edit] Counter-reformers

Catholics who worked against the Reformation include:

[edit] Second Front Reformers

There were also a number of people who initially cooperated with the Reformers, but who separated from them to form a "Second Front", principally in objection to the Reformers' sacralism. Among these were: