the Reformation

noun

: the 16th-century religious movement that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches

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Luther’s message of freedom In 1517, eight years before the German Peasants’ War, Luther launched the Reformation with his 95 Theses. — Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025 The question of confessional balance, and of how the divisions caused by the Reformation should be managed and accommodated by the imperial constitution, was intertwined with both of these issues. — Michael Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2016

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