***The very definition of Protestantism is a protest against the Church. ***
That IS correct, but they didn’t protest against God. They were trying to get the church back to God.
***That IS correct, but they didn’t protest against God. They were trying to get the church back to God.***
The overwhelming reason that the Reformation succeeded was that the German and other Western European princes and other nobles used it as a power play for assuming regional power.
Calvin even parlayed his portion of the Reformation into becoming the feudal tyrant of Geneva.