History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.

Wizel, could scarcely find a publisher, except at their own expense; and the Leipzig publishers complained that their books were ...

burned at the stake in Athens about twenty years after the death of Pericles. The Emperor Augustus subjected slanderous publicat ...

Thus, with the freedom of conscience, was born the freedom of the press. But it had to pass through a severe ordeal, even in Pro ...

(the residence of the present kingdom of Saxony) and Leipzig with its famous university. Duke George kept the Reformation back b ...

§ 94. The Reformation in Nürnberg. Priem: Geschichte von Nürnberg, 1874. F Roth: Die Einführung der Reformation in Nürnberg, 151 ...

Joh. W. Baum: Capito und Butzer, Elberfeld, 1860 (partly from MSS. See a complete chronological list of Bucer’s works, pp. 577–6 ...

unionist and peacemaker between the Lutherans and Zwinglians. He forms also a connecting link between Germany and England, and e ...

Melanchthonian school, in distinction from the rigid Lutheranism which triumphed in the Formula of Concord.^760 Bremen accepted ...

back to a moderate Lutheranism. He sympathized most with Bucer, and labored afterwards for the Wittenberg Concordia. The imperia ...

baptized by immersion. Rhegius stirred up the magistrate against them: the leaders were imprisoned, and some executed.^766 The c ...

für Kirchengeschichte," 1879; and Briefwechsel Landgraf Philipps mit Bucer, Leipz. 1880, vol. 2d, 1887 (important for the politi ...

The Landgrave was the first prince who took advantage of the recess of the Diet of Speier, Aug. 27, 1526, and construed it into ...

and a sort of dogmatic compend.^772 He was highly recommended to the Landgrave, who took him into his service soon after the Die ...

Peasants’ War and from the visitation of the churches in Saxony. Lambert himself, in his letters, complained of the prevailing c ...

Lambert seems to have had a remote influence on Scotland, where principles of church government somewhat similar to his own were ...

Russia beyond the banks of the Rhine, and which is now, in connection with the new German Empire, the leading Protestant power o ...

These things do not agree together, as is shown by reason and by daily experience. The order is therefore of no use either to Go ...

profess the free gospel of Christ.^790 He dedicated to him his commentary on Deuteronomy, with a congratulatory letter full of g ...

1550, seventy-two years old, and was buried in the cathedral of Königsberg, the first Protestant bishop and chancellor of the fi ...

II., his great-grandson, is the second, founder of the greatness of Prussia. After the terrible devastations of the Thirty Years ...