The book thus ably addresses an oft-cited quip from John Henry Newman, a famed Catholic convert who once wrote, “To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.” Indeed, Ortlund ...

Devotion to traditional religion was intense in Wales in the half century before the Protestant Reformation. There was a great devotion to the cult of the Virgin Mary. Fine town churches were ...

Although Reformation had been under way in Germany since 1517, in breaking with Rome Henry VIII did not intend to embrace Protestantism. All Henry sought was to end the power of the pope in his ...

(JTA) — Germany’s main Protestant body distanced itself from the anti-Semitism of its founder, Martin Luther, and pledged to confront the dark side of its roots. In a unanimous decision ...

Her ideal was the restoration of the pope-less Catholicism of her father, but she was obliged to co-operate with men of strongly Protestant views. A modification of the 1553 Prayer Book was ...