The strength and weakness of the Reformation in Eastern Europe

Authors

  • Antoni BOKUN Antoni BOKUN, the pastor of the Church of St. John the Baptist (Minsk, Belarus)., Belarus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29357/issn.2521-179X.2016.17.57

Keywords:

Reformation movement in Eastern Europe, education, training ministers, propaganda of ideas of the Reformation.

Abstract

This paper reviews the causes of the spread of the Reformation in Eastern Europe, as well as the reasons for its fall at the end of the XVI century. Reformation movement in Eastern Europe to successfully compete with the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches in the region thanks to the attractive ideological and intellectual program, as well as through the number of active and influential leaders. However, faced with renewed Catholicism, the reformers lost the conquered positions due to shortcomings in education and propaganda their ideas, as well as the lack of attention to the preparation of the ministers and the development of national culture.

Author Biography

Antoni BOKUN, Antoni BOKUN, the pastor of the Church of St. John the Baptist (Minsk, Belarus).

Бокун Антоний Иванович – пастор церкви ХВЕ “Иоанн Предтеча” (Минск, Беларусь). Автор публикаций по истории Реформации в Восточной Европе, в том числе книги “Золотой Век Беларуси”. Автор перевода Нового Завета на беларуский язык

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BOKUN, Antoni. 2016. “The Strength and Weakness of the Reformation in Eastern Europe”. Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology, no. 17 (September):57-67. https://doi.org/10.29357/issn.2521-179X.2016.17.57.

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No. 17 (2016): THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS: Euro-Asian Journal of Theology

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