The People’s Reformation
Visit the turbulent 16th century in the second issue in our series on the Reformation
We’re thrilled to give you all the first peek at the cover of issue 118 of Christian History, the next in our Reformation series.
It tells the tale of what scholars call the “Urban Reformation,” as the ideas of Luther, Zwingli, and other reformers did not stay ideas alone for long. Peasants took new thoughts of freedom into the political realm and demanded rights from their overlords. Priests and nuns married. Church art was forcefully, often violently, removed. New roles opened up to women while others closed down. Rulers afraid of political and social instability attacked those who believed differently. Almost everybody tracked down and drowned Anabaptists, whose ideas were seen as so destabilizing to the political landscape that they could not be allowed to continue.
Read the stories of this turbulent and exciting time when the issue prints in mid May! You can subscribe by clicking here.