Protestant Reformation
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In Mr. Persico’s account, the Protestant Reformation completed the project that Genesis began, entrenching individual autonomy and selfhood in Western culture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Before, we saw this with the Protestant Reformation, which would not have happened had we not had the printing press — a technological invention that networked people with information.
From Salon • May 22, 2024
Historians often say that Gutenberg’s mid-15th century invention led to some of the most important changes in Western history — including the Protestant Reformation, nationalism, capitalism, individualism and democracy.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023
A Jesuit priest was fined earlier this month for taking part in road blockades, and Wednesday’s news conference by Last Generation was hosted by the Protestant Reformation Church in Berlin.
From Washington Times • May 24, 2023
Unsurprisingly, church music was a rather more sombre affair, and the ordinary churchgoer prior to the Protestant Reformation is likely to have found singing in church a miserable, largely non- partidpatory activity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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