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Form of Protestantism commonly associated with the teachings of Martin Luther
Bolshevik and later Soviet policy systematically suppressed and persecuted Christianity across denominations: sources report executions of clergy (for example “28 Russian Orthodox bishops and over 1,2...
Martin Luther excluded certain books—primarily the seven Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament and questioned a few New Testament books—from the core Protestant canon because he prioritized text...
Martin Luther authored a virulently anti-Jewish tract titled On the Jews and Their Lies in 1543 that demonized Jews, urged severe measures against them, and recommended actions including burning synag...
Martin Luther placed the 14 books commonly called the Apocrypha (the deuterocanonical books found in Roman Catholic Bibles — e.g., Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1–2 Maccabees, ...
Martin Luther did not “remove” the deuterocanonical books from his Bible; he placed the Roman Catholic deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books in a separate intertestamental section and labeled them “not he...
From the 11th century through the Reformation and into later Protestant confessions, many critics—especially Protestant reformers—identified the papacy or particular popes with the Antichrist; promine...
Anabaptists in 16th‑century Europe were pursued, imprisoned, and often executed—by drowning, burning, beheading and other means—by both Protestant “magisterial” authorities and Roman Catholic institut...
Catholic sacramental confession developed over many centuries from public penitential practices in the early Church into private, priestly auricular confession made normative by the 12th–13th centurie...
Most mainstream Christian denominations do not "support" the Massacre of the Innocents as a good or endorsed act; rather many commemorate the event from the Gospel of Matthew as a historical or liturg...
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) interprets the Bible through a classic Reformed, confessional lens: it treats Scripture as the infallible, inerrant rule of faith and practice and...