Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

Many Protestant churches are now organized by either congregational or presbyterian church polities, both descended from the writings of John Calvin, a Protestant reformer working and writing independently following the break with the Roman Catholic Church precipitated by The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther.

The Hussites ( or Kališníci ; " Chalice People ") were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus ( c. 1369 – 1415 ), who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.

Johannes Agricola ( originally Schneider, then Schnitter ) ( April 20, 1494 – September 22, 1566 ) was a German Protestant reformer and humanist.

Various libertarian socialist authors have identified the written work of English Protestant social reformer Gerrard Winstanley and the social activism of his group, the Diggers, as anticipating this line of thought.

Nicolaus von Amsdorf ( 3 December 1483 – 14 May 1565 ) was a German theologian and Protestant reformer.

* 1555 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer ( b. 1493 )

* May 27 – John Calvin, French Protestant reformer ( b. 1509 )

* March 3 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer ( d. 1575 )

* September 22 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer ( b. 1494 )

* February 16 – Charles Taze Russell ( Pastor Russell ), prominent Protestant reformer and evangelist ( d. 1916 )

** Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer ( d. 1676 )

* The first book in Slovenian, Abecedarium, written by Protestant reformer Primoz Trubar, is printed in Tübingen, Germany.

* September – The Protestant reformer John Knox has a three-day debate in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland with Quintin Kennedy, commendator of Crossraguel Abbey, on transubstantiation.

* May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer ( b. 1483 )

* November 10 – Martin Luther, German monk and Protestant reformer ( d. 1546 )

* December 3 – Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer ( d. 1565 )

* October 9 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer ( b. 1493 )

* June 5 – Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer ( d. 1555 )

Gervinus ’ book also mentions a poem by the real-life Hans Sachs on the subject of Protestant reformer Martin Luther, called " Die Wittembergisch Nachtigall " (" The Wittemberg Nightingale ").

* June 28 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer ( b. 1508 )

* March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer ( b. 1520 )

** Thomas Beccon, English Protestant reformer ( b. 1511 )

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

Published in 1544, it borrowed greatly from Martin Luther's Litany and Myles Coverdale's New Testament and was the only service that might be considered to be " Protestant " to be finished within the lifetime of King Henry VIII.

Several key leaders early in the Protestant Reformation, including Martin Luther and John Calvin, followed the traditional reasoning in favour of capital punishment, and the Lutheran Church's Augsburg Confession explicitly defended it.

The term " countercult apologetics " first appeared in Protestant Evangelical literature as a self-designation in the late 1970s and early 1980s in articles by Ronald Enroth and David Fetcho, and by Walter Martin in Martin Speaks Out on the Cults.

The German Protestant theologian Martin Luther saw a parallel between Paul and Christ in their work of reconciliation, which is also in fact contained within the concept of Christian Grace.

Simultaneously Protestant Reformation under German Martin Luther questioned Papal authority.

Martin Luther led the Protestant Reformation against the Catholic Church after 1517, as the northern states became Protestant, while the southern states remained Catholic.

The play does mention Wittenberg, where Hamlet, Horatio, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern attend university, and where Martin Luther first proposed his 95 theses in 1517, effectively ushering in the Protestant Reformation.

The invention of the printing press in the 15th century played a major role in the rapid spread of the Protestant Reformation under leaders such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Martin Luther's 95 Theses which sparked off the Protestant Reformation | Reformation in a print edition from 1522.

* 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

For example, during the Protestant Reformation, in a document referred to simply as " Der Beichtrat " ( or " The Confessional Advice " ), Martin Luther granted the Landgrave Philip of Hesse, who, for many years, had been living " constantly in a state of adultery and fornication ," a dispensation to take a second wife.

* Protestant Reformation, the 16th century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others, with which were associated:

The first German celebration on a fairly large scale was held in 1805 ( the 1150th anniversary of his death ), followed by a similar celebration in a number of towns in 1855 ; both of these were predominantly Catholic affairs, which emphasized the role of Boniface in German history as opposed to Protestant views on the role of Martin Luther, and especially the 1855 celebrations were an expression of German Catholic nationalism.

He was an opponent of the Protestant Reformation and in particular of Martin Luther and William Tyndale.

During the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation was heavily criticised as an Aristotelian " pseudo-philosophy " imported into Christian teaching and jettisoned in favor of Martin Luther's doctrine of sacramental union, or in favor, per Huldrych Zwingli, of the Eucharist as memorial.

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.

Western Europe's significant historical events include the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation by Martin Luther and the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church, the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.

Worms also played prominently into the Protestant Reformation in the early sixteenth century, the site of Martin Luther's stand before the Diet of Worms, and also the birthplace of the first Bibles of the Reformation, German and English.