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Most German Protestants became Lutherans because of the influence of Martin Luther in his own country. However, the intolerance of the strict Lutheran party against the Calvinists and the moderate Lutherans (called, after their leader, Melanchthonians or Philippists) drove a large number of the latter over to the Reformed (Calvinistic) Church, especially in the Palatinate (1560), in Bremen (1561), Nassau (1582), Anhalt (1596), Hesse-Cassel (1605), and Brandenburg (1614). The German Reformed communion adopted the Heidelberg Catechism -- drawn up by two moderate Calvinistic divines, Zacharias Ursinus and Kaspar Olevianus, in 1563, by order of the elector Frederick III., or the Pious -- as their confession of faith.

Subcategories

• Bucer, Martin

Resources in This Category

• Reformation in Southern Germany

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/13.html
  Article on the reformation in Switzerland and southern Germany, especially Bucer in Strassbourg.

• Reformed Confessionalisation in Germany and Upper Germany

  http://www.reformiert-online.net/t/eng/bildung/grundkurs/gesch/lek4/lek4.jsp
  A history of the Reformed movement in Ost Friesland in northern Germany, in the Rhineland, the Palatinate and other areas of Germany

• The German Reformation

  http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/history/7_ch02.htm
  The first of nine chapters of Phillip Schaff's "History of Modern Christianity" which cover the Reformation in Germany from 1517 to 1530.

• The Heidelberg Catechism

  http://www.reformed.org/documents/heidelberg.html
  Published in 1563, this is a document of the Reformed Christian faith which is used by many churches.

• The Reformation in Strasbourg

  http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc7.ii.vi.v.html
  A historical site, with an emphasis on Martin Bucer, the chief reformer of Strasbourg.

• Ursinus and Olevianus

  http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/ursinus.htm
  Biographies of Ursinus and Olevianus and their work on the Heidelberg Catechism.

 

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