Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church tradition and frustrating church unity. That gets things backward.

Politics had always been front and center in religion and religion front and center in politics from the very earliest days.

The lead up to the Civil War of the 1640s is woven with issues relating to politics, economic and social change, and religion ...

The Protestant religion rejected the Pope's control and wanted individual believers to have their own relationship with God rather than only through a priest. These events came after many years of ...