Category Reformation

Churches and Guns: If violence was okay…

9 July 2009 Martyrdom, Nonviolence, Reformation  One comment

Ninthly, he has said that if the Turks should invade the country, no resistance ought to be offered them; and if it were right to wage war, he would rather take the field against the Christians than against the Turks; and it is certainly a great

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4 July arrives again

3 July 2009 Martyrdom, Reformation  One comment

And I wanted to share a story of exemplary freedom and independence.
'The opinions for which men go to war,' he said, 'do not deserve those great tragedies of which they make us spectators. Let there be no longer any question among us of Zwinglians

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On this special day, 1 July 1523

1 July 2009 Martyrdom, Reformation  No comments

Not long after the Diet of Worms and the subsequent Edict in 1521, Augustinian monks Johann van den Esschen (Johannes Esch) and Hendrik Vos (Heinrich Voes), sympathetic to Luther and his teachings, were taken captive and branded for execution. On 1

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