Proto-Protestantism

I recently finished Frederick Heymann's George of Bohemia: King of Heretics (1965, Princeton University Press). It's a weighty and...

As reported in a previous piece the Bohemian Brethren who would later become the Moravians were involved in the 1618 Protestant plot to inst...

I've been working my way through Edmund Alexander de Schweinitz's The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum; or, The Uni...

The non-sacral sect model views culture as something that is at best inevitably corrupt (and thus to some degree a thing indifferent), and a...

When sections of the American public were forced to admit that it was American soldiers that committed the horrific massacre at My Lai in 19...

When one thinks of religious conflict and persecution in the Americas, the slaughter of Huguenots at the hands of the Spanish necessarily co...

Through the efforts of my son I was able to read Peter Brock's The Political and Social Doctrines of the Unity of Czech Brethren in the ...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIII) Not all among the Czech Brethren and Walde...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VII) The Great Schism which erupted in 1378 gene...

Chelčický finds himself occupying an almost unique place in pre-Reformation Church History, representing views that would all but disappear ...

Petr Chelčický was born sometime around 1380 in Southern Bohemia, today's Czech Republic.* Associated with the village of Chelčice, he w...

It is one thing to evangelise the lost in other cultures, but this is quickly followed by another question. After becoming Christians, how ...

https://theflamingheretic.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/moravians-and-peace/ This is a sad article regarding the peace witness of the Morav...