{"id":22637,"date":"2017-10-19T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/christian-history-magazine-commemorates-the-500th-anniversary-of-the-reformation\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:44:42","slug":"christian-history-magazine-commemorates-the-500th-anniversary-of-the-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/christian-history-magazine-commemorates-the-500th-anniversary-of-the-reformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian History Magazine commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reformation Challenged Christendom with Bible Truths and Started the Protestant Movement \u2013 Set of Four Issues Examine Effects on Government, Commerce, Education, Theology & Social Institutions that Birthed Western Civilization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worcester, PA, October, 2017 \u2013 Christian History Institute (CHI), publisher of Christian History<\/em> magazine (CHM), announces its set of four magazine issues, #115 “Luther leads the way;” #118, “The People\u2019s Reformation;” #120, “Calvin, Councils and Confessions;” and #122, “The Catholic Reformation.” With this series set, Christian History Magazine commemorates the 500th<\/sup> anniversary of the Reformation, which began October 31, 1517. These magazine issues and others are available at no-cost, on the website and by subscription, at: www.ChristianHistoryInstitute.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Issue #115<\/a> examines the life and impact of Martin Luther, leader and inspiration of the most significant reformation of faith since the time of Jesus Christ. Influenced by early reformers such as John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, Luther not only translated the Bible into the German language, but inspired a church and cultural revolution in Europe by discovering and defining the doctrine of salvation by faith, dependent upon scripture alone. His revelation challenged the foundations of a dominant and corrupt Catholic Church and helped inspire institutions that over time, underwrote Western Civilization.<\/p>\n

Seldom has the life of one man affected his culture more than that of Luther, who revolutionized, music, theology, law, education, marriage and politics. Over the course of his life of sixty-three years (1483 \u2013 1546), Luther opposed a corrupted and elite Catholic Church establishment and identified a dynamic Faith, defined by a personal relationship with a historical and living creator and savior. With Luther\u2019s leadership, beginning with his distribution of 95 theses on indulgences in 1517, the reformation movement would not only reveal corrupt church practices but incite an explosion of freedoms and diversity, ending the European medieval period of history and ushering in modern times.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CHM issue #118<\/a> examines a Reformation movement that cast European society and culture into extraordinary and rapid change. In a short fifty-year period, the ideas of Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, Martin Bucer, John Calvin and other reformers would challenge the rule of a fractured and corrupt Catholic church, as well as kings and magistrates, causing one of the most extreme periods of radical social change in recorded history.<\/p>\n

The ideas and forces of the Reformation resulted in widespread public scandal, such as priests and nuns getting married (often to each other); peasants rebelling against the prevailing class system and demanding rights from overlords; churches violently attacked and artwork plundered by parishioners eager to abolish superstition, idolatry and relic worship. Church services were transformed as Christians sought to reinvent church meetings. New roles for women were created as new denominations opened options to women, such as the pastor\u2019s wife, while the role of nun declined. Kings and rulers chose sides and attacked those of opposing beliefs. Both Protestants and Catholics tracked down and killed Anabaptists, whose opposition to infant baptism was considered worthy of public torture and death by burning, which was considered appropriate for heresy judgments.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Issue #120<\/a> explores the life and impact of John Calvin and other sixteenth century leaders in the context of emerging theological and cultural movements. These movements, often founded by an individual, soon to became separate Christian denominations, forever altering both the church establishment and creating a group of neighboring state governments, soon to be known as states and Europe. These institutions helped reform Christendom, as well as nations, shaping Western Civilization and the modern world.<\/p>\n

The issue\u2019s contributing authors provide fresh insights into Calvin, the man\u2014his personal life and legacy as a pastor, a thought leader, theologian and statesman. Ultimately, John Calvin and his contemporaries inspired major thought movements, which today, compose the fabric of modern Christian denominations and the spiritual lives of millions of Christians.\u00a0Major movements\/traditions examined include: the Reformed church, Church of England, Lutherans, Anabaptists and Catholics, as well as, regions, city states and kingdoms which, over time, became nations.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Issue #122<\/a> contains ten in-depth articles that explore responses to the Reformation within the Catholic Church and two related Protestant movements (the Arminius challenge to Calvin\u2019s Reform movement and the Puritan\u2019s movement in America). The issue brings to a conclusion the editor\u2019s four-issue series commemorating the 500th<\/sup> anniversary of the European Reformation period, generally considered to have begun with the publication of Luther\u2019s 95 theses, in protest.<\/p>\n

The issue\u2019s contributing authors examine response efforts by both Catholic Church insiders and evangelicals. While piety movements spawned numerous formal orders, including the Jesuits (Society of Jesus), it also encouraged an underground \u201cjustification by faith\u201d movement which has remarkably experienced a revival in the present day. Both responses, in spite of papal reluctance, lead to the Council of Trent (1545 to 1563) and Europe\u2019s Thirty Years\u2019 War, which further defined the relationship between the church and state, as well as how Protestant rejection of church statuary and images resulted in an art explosion as an expression of Catholic Church truths and doctrine.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristian history has been largely removed from the American public education system that Christian leaders began in the early years of this nation,\u201d said Michael Austin, a Christian commentator. \u201cAfter years of decline, our public schools no longer teach the Bible\u2019s founding contribution to Western Civilization. Pioneer\u2019s such as Martin Luther instilled in our culture the values of faith, freedom and education. Yet, today, faith in God is being openly questioned and attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citing the importance of history, George Barna, speaking of research gathered in a recent survey, said, \u201cYoung people couldn\u2019t think of anything positive that the church stood for.\u201d In a video interview,\u00a0Barna reported<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re essentially in the Dark Ages, in America today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian History Institute (CHI) is a non-profit Pennsylvania corporation founded in 1982. Contact Christian History Institute, Box 540, Worcester, PA 19490, www.ChristianHistoryInstitute.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Reformation Challenged Christendom with Bible Truths and Started the Protestant Movement \u2013 Set of Four Issues Examine Effects on Government, Commerce, Education, Theology & Social Institutions that Birthed Western Civilization Worcester, PA, October, 2017 \u2013 Christian History Institute (CHI), publisher of Christian History magazine (CHM), announces its set of four magazine issues, #115 “Luther…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2838,"featured_media":22638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3017],"tags":[3100,3084,2700,3101,2968,3102,3087],"ppma_author":[4701],"class_list":["post-22637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-history-2","category-fall-2017","tag-500th","tag-anniversary","tag-christian","tag-commemorates","tag-history","tag-magazine","tag-reformation","author-raul"],"authors":[{"term_id":4701,"user_id":2838,"is_guest":0,"slug":"raul","display_name":"Pneuma Review Editor","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pneuma-Review-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pneuma-Review-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}