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Patterns of Religious Reformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Sheldon Shapiro
Sheldon Shapiro
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Indiana University, South Bend
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It is an historical truism that the Reformation of the sixteenth century consisted of a unique series of events. What we don't always realize, however, is that this series of events was itself one member of a class of historical phenomena. The most direct approach to elucidating this proposition is to start with the most obvious characteristic of Luther's teaching, his emphasis on salvation through faith. It is not generally recognized that this idea can be found in other religions and that it developed in those, as it did in Europe, in reaction to religious ideas which stressed works and subtle theological knowledge as the road to salvation.

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Religious Reformations
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , March 1973, pp. 143 - 157
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1973

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