The polemical Roman Catholic accusation—which the mainline Reformers vigorously denied—that these various species of conservative Protestantism, with their orthodoxdogmasand quasi-Catholic forms, were a pretext for the eventual rejection of most of traditionalChristianity, seemed to be confirmed by the e...
was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th. This was the time whenProtestantism, through itsdefinitivebreak with Roman Catholicism, arose to take its place on the Christian map. It was also the period during which the Roman Catholic Church, as an entity ...
to the Virgin Mary and for his energetic restoration of Roman churches. John did not recognize the decrees of theCouncil of Trullo (Constantinople, 692), submitted by theByzantineemperorJustinian II, which included disapproval of such customs as celibacy of the clergy and rules for fasting. ...