“The movement is historically referred to as The Reformation. I will continue to refer to it as objective people do.”
Protestants chose to call it “The Reformation.” Increasingly today, historians are calling it the Protestant Revolution since it toppled governments, caused riots, uprisings, led to the destruction of property on a massive scale, resulted in outright murder, massive changes in attitudes in culture, language, education, art, etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/08_august/21/protestant.shtml
Even prominent Protestants such as Alister McGrath have sometimes chosen to use the more correct and less biased term “Protestant Revolution” - http://www.amazon.com/Christianitys-Dangerous-Idea-Revolution-A-Twenty-First/dp/0061436860
This is by no means new: http://archive.org/details/renaissanceprote00hulmrich
The only reformation that was a reformation was the Catholic Reformation. The Protestant Revolt was exactly what it says it was.
You are right, of course. It is simple. How can one reform something by leaving it?
“The only reformation that was a reformation was the Catholic Reformation. The Protestant Revolt was exactly what it says it was.”
Yea. Not so much vlad.