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So we saw the Protestant Reformation.
Because remember, the same early modern crisis of civility that launched the Reformation also gave birth to tolerant societies, places like Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and indeed, eventually the United States, places that at least aspired to protect disagreement as well as diversity, and what made that possible was the virtue of civility.
And by rejecting the more radical changes of the Protestant reformation, he allowed his people to preserve most of their religious traditions.
And for those of you who love the arts, aren't you glad you invited me here to brighten your day? (Laughter) (Applause) Now, rather than saying that we're on the brink of our own annihilation, I prefer to believe that we are engaged in a fundamental reformation, a reformation like the religious Reformation of the 16th century.
The arts reformation, like the religious Reformation, is spurred in part by technology, with indeed, the printing press really leading the charge on the religious Reformation.
But I want to be clear, just as the religious Reformation did not spell the end to the formal Church or to the priesthood; I believe that our artistic institutions will continue to have importance.
Where is there greater or clearer truth: in retrospective art/craft or in fabrication and reformation?
That is why Europeans should hope that the wave of corporate restructuring and reformation, which many thought would follow inevitably in the wake of the creation of the single market, begins to crest across the Continent and change the way businesses are run.
Islam never experienced something akin to the Reformation in Europe; the lines between the sacred and the secular are unclear and contested.
The defining moment of the Henrician Reformation came in April 1533, when the Parliament of England passed the Ecclesiastical Appeals Act, giving Henry the final word on all legal and religious questions.
But, with many theological issues left unresolved, the Reformation continued to cycle through violent revolutions and reversals for decades.
In the process, the reformation he propounds provides an Islamic foundation for a pluralist and tolerant environment and eventually, perhaps, a democratic society.
And how many Muslims understand fully the Christian Reformation and what it taught believers about philosophy and religion?
Moreover, the Japan-US Security Consultative Committee brought together the countries’ foreign and defense ministers in Washington in February to discuss common strategic objectives related to the reformation of US forward forces.
Some might argue that only a thorough religious reformation will bring about long-term peace in the Middle East.
But, though reformation of Islam might be desirable in itself, it will not bring an end to the war at hand.
The medieval system that preceded it, based on a universal church and empire, perished during the Reformation.
Rome, to Protestant rebels at the time of the Reformation, was regarded as the center of a global “cosmopolitan” network which oppressed national aspirations.
One view is that, just as the Reformation convulsed Europe half a millennium ago, the world today is witnessing a struggle of similarly explosive potential within the Islamic world.
I started my career with China Youth Daily in 1979 and have experienced the whole process of China’s opening up and reformation.
If, as Huntington implies, the rights that we claim in the West emerged uniquely from the political crisis of European Christianity after the Protestant Reformation, what is to stop other societies from appealing to their own local traditions to deny these rights?
A former Jesuit, Bergoglio was raised in a religious order – founded in the sixteenth century to oppose the Protestant Reformation – that is known for its power inside the church and its desire for wider political influence.
While the best facilities provide programs to help prisoners reintegrate into society, prisons also subject inmates to strict, often arbitrary discipline and depersonalizing rituals like numbering and strip searches - practices that foster more rage than reformation.
However, whereas the Protestant Reformation underpinned a sea change in ethics that spurred the growth of capitalism and liberal democracy, the focus for Islamic unifiers is the establishment of a greater collective presence.
While the Reformation was supported by national elites seeking to throw off Roman hegemony, integralist Islam seeks to unify the community of believers by liberating it from the Western-imposed model of separate Muslim nation states.
The questioning of established authority that followed the earlier Reformation in Europe forced society to ask: How do we know the truth?
And the Anglican Church abandoned the idea of purgatory back in the sixteenth century, with the Reformation.
Partial historical knowledge pressed into the service of national myths – the Reformation or the 1992 Exchange Rate Mechanism crisis as a model for Brexit; the Battle of Poltava for contemporary Russia – causes confusion, sows discord, and inflicts harm.
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are, and it will take years and years of patient effort on the part of us Christians to bring about any appreciable reformation in the rowdiness of the fox-terrier nature.
I sent my gentleman a short letter, therefore, that I had obeyed his orders in all things but that of going back to the Bath, which I could not think of for many reasons; that however parting from him was a wound to me that I could never recover, yet that I was fully satisfied his reflections were just, and would be very far from desiring to obstruct his reformation or repentance.