Reformation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the pious, increased in number by a spontaneous religious revival in the late 15th cent., drank the doctrine of a new spirituality with pleasure, for Luthers doctrine of justification (i.e., salvation) by faith alone and not by sacraments, good...