Icon of the Melanesian Brotherhood Martyrs at Canterbury Cathedral ( Anglican Communion ) With the Reformation, after an initial uncertainty among early Lutherans, who painted a few " icon "- like depictions of leading Reformers, and continued to paint scenes from Scripture, Protestants came down firmly against icon-like portraits, especially larger ones, even of Christ.

However, the Reformers believed some tradition to be very seriously in conflict with the Scriptures: especially, with regard to teaching about the Church itself, but also touching on basic principles of the Gospel.

:* The penal substitution theory ( which is a refinement of the Anselmian satisfaction theory developed by the Protestant Reformers, especially John Calvin, and is often treated together with the satisfaction view, giving rise to the " three main types " of atonement theories-classical or patristic, scholastic, and idealistic-spoken of by Aulen ).

However, notable Christian theologians rejected Aristotelian theological influence, especially the first generation of Christian Reformers and most notably Martin Luther.

Many European national foreigners moved to Livorno, especially of the increasingly discriminated Reformers who supported Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others.

All five implicitly rejected or countered the teachings of the then-dominant Catholic Church, which the Reformers claimed had usurped divine attributes or qualities for the Church and its hierarchy, especially its head, the Pope.

The Catholic teaching, already outlined against the Pelagians by various councils and popes from the fifth century, is fully presented against the Reformers by the Council of Trent, especially Session V, Decree on Original Sin, and Session VI, Decree on Justification.

Counting Ventura's performance, Reformers took in more votes than all other third parties in the United States combined, establishing the Reform Party as America's third largest party.

In 1857, under the leadership of George Brown, the Clear Grits and left wing Reformers formed the Liberal Party in Canada West and, with the Parti rouge and Maritime Liberal parties, formed the basis for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Ministerial responsibility, the principal object of parliamentary struggles conducted by the Parti Canadien in Lower Canada and the Reformers in Upper Canada, becomes a reality in 1848, when Governor Lord Elgin agreed to let the leaders of the majority parties in Canada-East and the Canada-West, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin, form their own Executive Council.

The Reformers made heavy use of inexpensive pamphlets ( using the relatively new printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg ) so there was swift movement of both ideas and documents, including The Ninety-Five Theses.

According to these Reformers, even as early as the Apostles a natural process of corruption began, and reached a crucial point of development when the Christian church was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by Theodosius I.

Reformers who denounced the terrible effects of heavy consumption of alcohol on public disorder, health, and quality of work, made periodic attempts to control it in Mexico City in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

The Reformers made abolition of clerical continence and celibacy a key element in their reform.

That made the city's population easily influenced by later ideas of the Reformers.

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

Reformers like authors Stefan Heym and Christa Wolf and attorney Gregor Gysi, lawyer of dissidents like Robert Havemann and Rudolf Bahro, soon began to re-invent a party infamous for its rigid Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and police-state methods.

Reformers included William Jennings Bryan, while opponents counted respected figures such as Elihu Root and George Frisbie Hoar amongst their number ; Root cared so strongly about the issue that, after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, he refused to stand for re-election to the Senate.

Reformers in the Church of England accepted Protestant doctrine but the structure of the church ministry remained, and the Church alternated, for centuries, between sympathies for older traditions and radical Protestantism represented by the puritans, progressively forging a compromise between adherence to ancient tradition and Protestantism.

" The ideal conception of the Church, which the Reformers opposed to the organization of the Roman Church, which was expressed in his Loci of 1535, lost for him after 1537 its former prominence, when he began to emphasize the conception of the true visible Church as it may be found among the Evangelicals.

His aim, however, had been to find a via media between old and new ; his essential conservatism resulted in a lack of sympathy for the revolutionary attitude of the Reformers.

The effect of his victory at Baden was dissipated, however, at the Disputation of Bern ( January 1528 ), where the propositions advanced by the Reformers were debated in the absence of Eck, and Bern, Basel, and other places were definitely won for the Reformation.

At one time Morais had been a voice for moderation within the coalition of Reformers.

Reformers looked only to the past for inspiration.

Reform's early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991 stating that Reformers opposed " any immigration based on race or creed or designed to radically or suddenly alter the ethnic makeup of Canada ".

Reformers criticized government-sponsored multiculturalism for creating a " hyphenated Canadian " identity, rather than a single Canadian identity.

Reformers believed that Canada could continue to exist without Quebec, but hoped that offers of decentralization of federal powers to all the provinces would satisfy the desire by the government of Quebec for greater autonomy while being equitable to all the provinces.

Under the tag " Operation Back to the Future ", it was launched in Spring 2005 as an umbrella for all original Reformers across the nation who felt that they were still without a political home.

Swedenborg rejected the doctrine of salvation through faith alone, since he considered both faith and charity necessary for salvation, not one without the other, whereas the Reformers taught that faith alone procured justification, although it must be a faith which resulted in obedience.

Mackenzie declared his intentions to run in the elections for the 10th Parliament of Upper Canada and entered into correspondence with Reformers like Joseph Hume in England and John Neilson in Lower Canada.

Mackenzie was one of four Reformers vying for York County's two seats – the others included two moderates ( J. E. Small and Robert Baldwin ) and one radical Reformer, Jesse Ketchum.

Unfortunately for Mackenzie and the Reformers, the mood of Upper Canada had changed somewhat from 1828 for a number of reasons: Sir John Colborne, who replaced Sir Peregrine Maitland as lieutenant governor in 1828, was less allied with John Strachan and the Family Compact ; Colborne had encouraged immigration to Upper Canada from the British Isles, and these new settlers felt more loyalty to the home country than Upper Canadians born in the New World ; and the Reform party had seemed to accomplish little during the two years they had controlled the Assembly.

Consequently, the 1830 election saw the Reformers win only 20 of the 51 seats in the 11th Parliament of Upper Canada, though both Mackenzie and Ketchum were returned as members for York.

The Tories and the Reformers fielded candidates for Toronto's first municipal election, held on March 27, 1834, with the Reformers winning a majority on the Toronto City Council.

Mackenzie was criticized for printing this letter ( not only by Tories but also by some Reformers such as Egerton Ryerson ) but it charted a course that Mackenzie would soon be travelling himself.

In elections held in October 1834, the Reformers won a majority in the 12th Parliament of Upper Canada and Mackenzie was again elected as member for York ( though at this point he was still serving as mayor of Toronto ).

In the run-up to the July 1836 election for the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada, Head actively campaigned on behalf of the Tories against the Reformers, rallying the people behind the cause of loyalty to the British Empire.

Reformers sought to destroy what they saw as widespread institutional corruption.

For the Reformers, the culmination of this gradual corruption was typified, in a concentrated way, in the office of the Pope who took on ancient titles such as Pontifex Maximus and supreme power in the church, which they characterized in its final form as being an usurpatious throne of Satanic authority set up in pretense of ruling over the Kingdom of God.

Specific accusations of corruption are often leveled at Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar, two of the ' Young Reformers ' chiefly responsible for Russian privatization in the early 1990s.

Furthermore, during George's lifetime his nearest relations his son-in-law Philip of Hesse, and his brother Heinrich, joined the Reformers.

Thus, instead of expecting a single Antichrist to rule the earth during a future Tribulation period, Martin Luther, John Calvin and the other Protestant Reformers saw the Antichrist as a present feature in the world of their time, fulfilled in the papacy.

Reformers tabled constitutional amendments in 1828, 1829 and 1855, with the issues finally reaching a head during the 1890s and 1900s.

The description almost immediately appears to be describing the persecution of Reformers and Protestant or pre-Protestant groups of people who suffered persecution and execution before, during, and after the Middle Ages, and this view seems to have been held by Bruce R. McConkie in his first edition of Mormon Doctrine.

Reformers during the Progressive Era later carried on this tradition of secrecy when drafting American laws.

The Five solae are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers ' basic theological beliefs in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.

This paper was known for its sharp political wit and generally supported Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine's French Canadian Reformers during its early years.