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Definition

a series of Christian efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations separate than the Catholic Church

Most scholars date the reformation from Luther's 1517 publishing of The Ninety-Five Theses to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.

Unlike most involved in the Reformation, Luther argued that free will was the central issue.
The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.
Dinesh D'Souza -- What's So Great About America
As if the ripple at its widest desired to be verified by a reformation of itself, to be drawn in and drawn out through its point of origin.
Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
That was the beginning of your reformation.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
We have gone through a pretense of truce and reformation, straight into deadlock.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
The Reformation opened the door a little wider.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
He denounced Cal's godlessness, demanded his reformation.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
This was the only country that the reformation never reached.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
You are sure it is somewhere in your mind near the top—you saw it there the other day when you were looking up the beginnings of the Reformation.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
During the Reformation, theologians looked to the old Hebrew Bible.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I do not expect that you, who always rebelled against my just authority, exerted for your benefit and reformation, should owe me any good-will now.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
But if a man reforms, doesn't he deserve to have his reformation credited sooner or later?
Stephen King -- The Shining
In brief, soldiers fought for the Spanish Counter-Reformation, for Napoleon, for Garibaldi—and now we have Prussian soldiers.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
You must make some reformation in that quarter.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
He thirsted for that reformation and renewal.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Historically their zeal stems not from the strength of the Catholic Church but from its weakness in the face of the Reformation.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(2) The purification and reformation of oneself for its reception, and (3) The improvement of the human race by striving for such purification.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Not until the Reformation in the sixteenth century was there any protest against the idea that people could only obtain salvation through the Church.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

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