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December 2017: The Reformation comes to the New World with the promise of religious freedom. The Great Awakening of the mid-1700’s firmly established Protestantism as the dominant influence in American culture.

November 2017: The English Reformation. Oliver Cromwell helped England take up arms to keep the country from falling back into Catholic control.

October 2017: Reformation Day is October 31st. 500 years ago on this date Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the chapel door in Wittenberg, Germany. This bold declaration of the authority of Christ and the Scriptures sparked a flame that resulted in the Protestant church breaking from the Roman Catholic church. Painting by Ferdinand Pauwels.

September 2017: A 1600’s copy of Wycliffe’s Bible. Originally translated in the 1400’s into Middle English, Wycliffe’s Bible along with William Tyndall’s Bible gave the English speaking world access to the written word of God.

August 2017: The John Knox window at St. Giles Cathedral – Edinburgh, Scotland. Celebrating the Reformation’s spread to the British Isles.

June 2017: Geneva in the time of John Calvin’s ministry

May 2017: The Swiss Reformers. From left to right – Ulrich Zwingli, Joachim Vadian, and Johannes Oecolampadius.

April 2017: Luther’s New Testament. Luther translated the New Testament while in exile at the Wartburg. Pictured is a copy of a surviving Low German New Testament.

March 2017: The Marburg Colloquy. The seminal meeting among the major Reformers to try to unify doctrine. Among those gathered were Luther, Zwingli, Melanchthon, and Bucer. 15 Articles were printed to join the Protestant Reformation in unity; however, there was no agreement on the “Real Presence” of Christ in the Eucharist. Read the 15 Articles of Marburg.

February 2017: Luther at the Diet of Worms. When asked to repudiate his statements against the doctrine of the Catholic church, Luther responded, “…Unless I am convicted of error by the testimony of Scripture or by manifest evidence…I cannot and will not retract, for we must never act contrary to our conscience….Here I stand. God help me! Amen!”

January 2017: Celebrating 500 Years of the Protestant Reformation!  Luther nailing the 95 Theses to the chapel door in Wittenberg