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To: DallasBiff

This was 60 years after the Moravian Church was established. That is considered the origin of the Protestant churches.


6 posted on 10/31/2025 9:31:12 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo
The Waldensians are even earlier--they go back to Peter Waldo in the late 12th century.

Of course the term "Protestant" is first used in 1529.

7 posted on 10/31/2025 9:43:50 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: gitmo
This was 60 years after the Moravian Church was established. That is considered the origin of the Protestant churches.

Agreed. Or perhaps go back further to someone who inspired Juan Hus --- John Wycliffe in the late 14th century. He's sometimes called the "morning star of the Protestant Reformation".

8 posted on 10/31/2025 9:44:56 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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