although translations were available in all other major European languages.Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, the first English translation to use Jehovah ("Iehouah") as God's name as preferred by English Protestant Reformers, the first...
Born into a working-class Protestant family, Jones was an actress for several years before turning her hand to writing. Her plays have been staged on Broadway in New York as well as in Northern Ireland. Birthplace: Belfast, United Kingdom 50 Marie Knutsen 08/30/1982 1 Marie Knutsen (born...
Five English Reformers, by JC Ryle George Mueller (Biography Great Works Of Christ In America, by Cotton Mather Handbook of Revivals Henry Fish. History of Christianity, (2 Volumes) by Kenneth Scott Latourette History of the Christian Church, (5 Volumes) by Sheldon History of the Protestant C...
Many Protestants, especially Calvinists and Lutherans, consider him to be one of the theological fathers of the Protestant Reformation due to his teachings on salvation and divine grace. Protestant Reformers generally, and Martin Luther in particular, held Augustine in preeminence among early Church ...
He was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, but he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches. He vehemently opposed the Nazis' Aryan Paragraph, but made remarks about Jews that some scholars ...
He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept up a long correspondence ...
Using humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament, which raised questions that would be influential in the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, In Praise of Folly, Handbook of a ...
Martin Luther, the driving force behind the Protestant Reformation, challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and paved the way for a new understanding of faith and scripture, turning him into a star of theological defiance. This impressive compilation of famous theologians underlines the ...
teachings (known as Hussites) refused to elect another Catholic monarch and defeated five consecutive papal crusades between 1420 and 1431 in what became known as the Hussite Wars. Both the Bohemian and the Moravian populations remained majority Hussite until the 1620s, when a Protestant defeat ...