Reformed church

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Key People:: Antoine Court; Daniel Ernst Jablonski; Claude Pajon; John Dury

Related Topics:: Reformed and Presbyterian churches; Arminianism; presbytery; Orthodox Presbyterian Church; Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster

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Reformed church, any of several major representative groups of classical Protestantism that arose in the 16th-century Reformation. Originally, all of the Reformation churches used this name (or the name Evangelical) to distinguish themselves from the “unreformed,” or unchanged, Roman Catholic church. After the great controversy among these churches over the Lord’s Supper (after 1529), the followers of Martin Luther began to use the name Lutheran as a specific name, and the name Reformed became associated with the Calvinistic churches (and also for a time with the Church of England). Eventually the name Presbyterian, which denotes the form of church polity ...(100 of 149 words)

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