This chronology of the western religious experience is approaching familiar ground. Names, dates, and events of the Renaissance along with the courage, tenacity, and audacity of the great explorers are drilled into our youth.  With familiarity and hindsight, it is easy to project modern preconceptions into the past, making the outcome of historical events look almost inevitable.  When weighing the “facts” of history, one often forgets to balance the records against the fragile reality of the times.  This tendency can cause one to overlook the significance of discrete actions.  It depreciates the importance of the side that lost; the value of the road not taken; the quality of the life not spared. Single events and individual people affected the lives of millions across many generations.  History is full of such pivotal periods, and the early sixteenth century was certainly one of the greatest.  A period in which, almost all contemporary western religions, can trace ties back to a reshaped Holy Roman Empire or a Reformed branch of it.

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