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Could someone who had joined a monastery decide to leave?
In principle, they were not supposed to leave their order because they took a vow for life. In practice, some did leave, and some were subsequently readmitted. However, the time period covered here is ...
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Why are church reformist centers all outside the boundary of the original Roman Empire?
Consider the Church of England as a counterexample, or for that matter Calvin in Geneva. If you look for a simplistic explanation, look not at Roman borders but at the political weakness of the Holy ...
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Could someone who had joined a monastery decide to leave?
"Decide to leave" was always an option to consider.
And one could do that, of course. Just do that. But it seems the question is more about the obstacles and costs that may be associated ...
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What was the motivation for the Church of England to begin recording births, marriages and deaths in 1538?
The parish registers were introduced mainly because Thomas Cromwell had found that they were in common use in the rest of Europe and according to the sources cited by the related wikipedia article, ...
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Why were cobblers so radical?
Cobblers were workmen whose customers wore shoes, and therefore traveled more than most others (only a few people wore shoes in the Middle Ages). By definition, these were the few people that "got ...
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How were expelled ministers "witnessed" during the Great Ejection of 1662?
"Confessor" is a technical term in this context. It normally means "a person who suffered for the faith, but not death" -- as opposed to the cited "martyr" who did ...
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Why are church reformist centers all outside the boundary of the original Roman Empire?
the church reformist centers are virtually all outside the original Roman Empire
That is not really true.
The oldest reformist or heretic movements appeared within former Roman territories, like the ...
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Why are Luther's 95 Theses seen as so important?
The 95 Theses (e) do not only address indulgence and indulgences!
First of all, to avoid a possible confusion, the word indulgences, is a difficult word to understand correctly here. In terms of the ...
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What differentiates a priest, a clerk, a capellanus, a subdeacon and a rector?
I'm no expert, but will attempt a partial answer - first, the educational qualifications refer to:-
BA - Bachelor of Arts
MA - Master of Arts (traditionally awarded automatically to Oxford graduates ...
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When was the first pentecostal church created?
I found two schools of thought on this.
School 1:
There is not and never has been any official organization overseeing all Pentecostals, and there is not really one single founding church of the ...
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Late 17th century colonial Anglican pastor
John and Charles Wesley were Anglican pastors who made a somewhat similar trip to the Americas about 40 years later than your designated time. However, they may be somewhat useful models in that they ...
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Martin Luther's 95 Theses
The de.wikipedia has dedicated a whole section to the historicity of this incident. In the introduction:
Die Historizität des Thesenanschlags, bei dem Luther seine 95 Thesen
am 31. Oktober 1517 ...
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When, and where, was the word 'Anglican' first used in the context of the Protestant Church of England?
The most recent (third) edition of the OED cites 1598 as the earliest English-language reference for "Anglican". The quotation is as follows:
1598 King James VI & I in D. Calderwood True Hist....
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When, and where, was the word 'Anglican' first used in the context of the Protestant Church of England?
The OED (first edition) attests the first use to a letter dated Aug. 25, 1635, to a Dr. B. from James Howell and collected in his Familiar Letters on Important Subjects, published 1650. (Letter XLVIII)...
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Representative early Anglican hymns?
You are out of luck for all but the very end of the period you describe. Congregational hymn singing was strongly frowned upon in the Anglican Church until popularized by Isaac Watts (1674-1748) in ...
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How were expelled ministers "witnessed" during the Great Ejection of 1662?
Britannica.com describes a witness in the Christian sense as:
a person totally given to God and his fellow men. There
are three elements in this Christian witness: message, signs to
convince, divine ...
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What was the attitude towards Martin Luther among early non-Catholic Christians in Britain?
As near as I can tell, at the time of the publication of Luther's 95 Theses in 1518, there was not a significant openly-protestant movement in England. The kingdom would not break with the Catholic ...
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Could someone who had joined a monastery decide to leave?
This depends on the reason why the person was living in a monastery. Often monasteries were used as prisons explicitly. Some people were simply forbidden leaving, this often happened with people who ...
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What was the biggest region in the Holy Roman Empire that was never Protestant, if any?
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The Holy Roman Empire was larger than you might think, even in 1789, and included lands in France and Italy that might possibly never have had any Protestant clergy.
There were many ...
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Why are church reformist centers all outside the boundary of the original Roman Empire?
Is it a coincidence that the church reformist centers are virtually all outside the original Roman Empire border, the Roman Limes ?
No. It is not. It is by no means some sort of mere coincidence that ...
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