Chapter 1 from The Moravian Church
Table of Contents This book is very much like a small text book. Lots of little snippets of information that kind of jump around under a larger umbrella. As I mentioned in my previous post, it is out of print. I've linked some subjects to google books which offers an amazing amount of material and some of it is in full text form. Chapter 1 - The Late Medieval World Weinlick begins by discussing the very real and worthy work going on in church life prior to the Reformation. He mentions that sometimes we go back to Luther and stop, but men of faith were challenging the system before that. While there were many attempts at breaking away from the church, only two pre-reformation churches were still around to see the Reformation. Group 1 was the Waldenses from the late 1100s and the other was the Unitas Fratrum (1457). ( Renaissance ) In the 1300s we see a powerful papacy as well as a rising university system. The language was Latin in both cases and that made for easy movement from co...