Hence, he argued that the reformers, " had to leave them in order that we might come to Christ.

Some have argued that Calvin was the least anti-semitic among all the major reformers of his time especially in comparison to Martin Luther.

Bryan and the reformers argued for popular election through highlighting perceived flaws with the existing system, specifically corruption and electoral deadlocks, and through arousing populist sentiment.

Governments and reformers argued that labour in factories must be regulated and the state had an obligation to provide welfare for poor.

As well as the problem of Home Rule, there were internal party struggles ; supporters of the Church of England or military reform lambasted Law for not paying attention to their causes, and tariff reformers argued with him over his previous compromise on food duties.

Disillusioned by traditional instruments and concerned with the need to decentralize planning and management in their domestic economies, the reformers argued for the strengthening of market relations among Comecon states.

By 1909, at the first White House Conference on Dependent Children, the country's top social reformers praised the CAS ' emigration movement, but argued that children should either be kept with their natal families or, if they were removed as a result of parental neglect or abuse, every effort should be made to place the child in a foster home nearby.

Esposito also observes that Muslim reformers have argued that " these punishment were appropriate within the historical and social contexts in which they originated but are inappropriate today and that the underlying religious principles and values need to find new expression in modernizing societies.

The reformers argued that the 1922 Committee was " run by a group of mostly cantankerous old farts who do little to further right-wing ideas " and needed to campaign on issues other than EU membership and their objections to House of Lords reform because it made the party appear out of touch.

Over time reformers argued that Members of Parliament and other elected officials should represent citizens equally, and that each voter should only be entitled to exercise the vote once in an election.

The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.

Notably, Dürer had contacts with various reformers, such as Zwingli, Andreas Karlstadt, Melanchthon, Erasmus and Cornelius Grapheus from whom Dürer received Luther's ' Babylonian Captivity ' in 1520.

Since “ a cappella ” singing brought a new polyphony with instrumental accompaniment, it is not surprising that Protestant reformers who opposed the instruments ( such as Calvin and Zwingli ) also opposed the polyphony.

hooks points out that these white female reformers were more concerned with white morality than the conditions these morals caused black Americans.

It was the final stage of the reformers ' work of removing all elements of sacrificial offering from the Latin Mass ; so that it should cease to be seen as a ritual at which the priest, on behalf of the faithful offered Christ's body and blood to God ; and might rather be seen as a ritual whereby Christ shared his body and blood, according to a different sacramental theology, with the faithful.

When their study of the New Testament led the reformers to begin to practice Baptism by Immersion, the nearby Redstone Baptist Association invited Brush Run Church to join with them for the purpose of fellowship.

He was subsequently employed on various papal missions, especially to Germany, but was unsuccessful in preventing the German princes from making a truce with the reformers, or in checking to any extent the progress of the reformers ' doctrines.

He tried to gain, by his continued correspondence with Luther and other reformers such as Urbanus Rhegius, efficient men for the preaching of the gospel and for the organization of the evangelical church.

In 1669 the city of Heraklion, on Crete, which at one time boasted at least 120 painters, finally fell to the Turks, and from that time Greek icon painting went into a decline, with a revival attempted in the 20th century by art reformers such as Photios Kontoglou, who emphasized a return to earlier styles.

He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger.

Of all the reformers who preceded Martin Luther, Wycliffe put most emphasis on Scripture: " Even though there were a hundred popes and though every mendicant monk were a cardinal, they would be entitled to confidence only insofar as they accorded with the Bible.

Cranmer ’ s first contact with a Continental reformer was with Simon Grynaeus, a humanist based in Basel, Switzerland and a follower of the Swiss reformers, Huldrych Zwingli and Johannes Oecolampadius.

Grynaeus ' early contacts initiated Cranmer ’ s eventual relationship with the Strasbourg and Swiss reformers.

He intervened in religious disputes, supporting reformers to the disappointment of religious conservatives who desired to maintain the link with Rome.

Taft ignored the risks and tackled the tariff boldly, on the one hand encouraging reformers to fight for lower rates, and then cutting deals with conservative leaders that kept overall rates high.

Paine's deism was simply too radical for these more moderate reformers and they feared being tarred with the brush of extremism.

Although his Republican Party split in 1872 with reformers denouncing him, Grant was easily reelected.

Taft ignored the political effects and kept the tariff rates on his agenda ( he had raised expectations of lower rates in the campaign ); he passively encouraged congressional reformers to draft bills including lower rates, while broadcasting a willingness to compromise with conservative leaders in the Congress, who wanted to keep tariff rates high.

Meanwhile, in these efforts to retain the guise of a Roman Catholic reformer as opposed to a heretical revolutionary, and to appeal to German princes with his religious condemnation of the peasant revolts backed up by the Doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, Luther's growing conservatism would provoke more radical reformers.

Although commonly thought of as a unified statement of doctrine by the two reformers, Luther did not conceal his dissatisfaction with the irenic tone of the confession.

During this time, Dubček and other reformers sought to liberalize the Communist regime, creating " socialism with a human face ".

His promise of modest reform was held to, and the second most famous bill of this ministry, while " reforming " in 21st century eyes, was in fact aimed at the reformers themselves, with their constituency among the new industrial rich.

However, the Gang's radical ideas also clashed with influential elders and a large segment of party reformers.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

One approach, the regulative principle of worship, favoured by many Zwinglians, Calvinists and some radical reformers, considered anything that was not directly authorised by the Bible to be a novel and Catholic introduction to worship, which was to be rejected.

In that incident, unknown reformers had posted placards in various cities attacking the Catholic mass, which provoked a violent backlash against Protestants.

This was followed by an open letter to the pope ( Admonitio paterna Pauli III ) in 1544, in which Calvin admonished Paul III for depriving the reformers of any prospect of rapprochement.

The pope proceeded to open the Council of Trent, which resulted in decrees against the reformers.

In 2007 an anonymous group called The Meritocracy Party published its first manifesto, to which they have now added more than two million words on the subject ( discussing Hegel, Rousseau, Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint-Simon and various other philosophers, scientists, reformers and revolutionaries ).

Consequently, Taft lost the support of antitrust reformers ( who disliked his conservative rhetoric ), of big business ( which disliked his actions ), and of Roosevelt, who felt humiliated by his protégé.

* Justus Henning Boehmer ( 1674 – 1749 ), German ecclesiastical jurist, one of the first reformers of the church law and the civil law which was basis for further reforms and maintained until the 20th century.

Proponents for popular election noted that ten states already had non-binding primaries for Senate candidates, in which the candidates would be voted on by the public, effectively serving as advisory referenda instructing state legislatures how to vote ; reformers campaigned for more states to introduce a similar method.

On the second front, reformers worked towards a constitutional amendment, which was strongly supported in the House of Representatives but initially opposed by the Senate-Bybee notes that the state legislatures, who would lose power if the reforms went through, were supportive of the campaign.

The Reformation began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church, by priests who opposed what they perceived as false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice — especially the teaching and the sale of indulgences or the abuses thereof, and simony, the selling and buying of clerical offices — that the reformers saw as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Church's Roman hierarchy, which included the Pope.

The focus of the Chinese government on maintaining political and social stability has been a top priority since the Tiananmen crackdown on reformers on June 4, 1989, and the current government has no interest in re-evaluating any issue that might lead to a split in the Chinese leadership, or which might polarize the Party on ideological grounds.

The Short Service, an unpretentious setting of items for the Anglican Matins, Communion and Evensong services, which seems to designed to comply with the Protestant reformers ’ demand for clear words and simple musical textures, may well have been composed during the Lincoln years.

While Edgar lived, he strongly supported the reformers, but following his death, the discontents which these changes had provoked came into the open.

The phrase ' Clapham Sect ' was a later invention by James Stephen in an article of 1844 which celebrated and romanticized the work of these reformers.

Like other religious reformers of the time, they felt that the Catholic Church needed radical cleansing of its impurities, and that the Pope ruled the Church as if it was a worldly kingdom, which sat in mocking tyranny over the things of God, and was ultimately doomed.

Towards the end of his life, after Luther's initial hostility to large public religious images had softened, Cranach painted a number of " Lutheran altarpieces " of the Last Supper and other subjects, in which Christ was shown in a traditional manner, including a halo, but the apostles, without halos, were portraits of leading reformers.

President García expanded the program, which has been praised by neoliberal reformers for extending coverage to indigenous people and women.

In 1853 the Liberal-Conservative party, formed in 1854 by a coalition, attempted to bring him out as a candidate for the upper house, which was at this date elective, but though he had broken with the advanced reformers, he could not approve of the tactics of their opponents, and refused to stand.

In the mid-1960s native musical forms were revitalized by the Parra family with the Nueva Canción Chilena, which became associated with political activism and reformers like Chilean socialist Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity government.

There he joined a team of reformers which included Matthew Zell, Wolfgang Capito, and Caspar Hedio.