Talk:Magisterial Reformation

Pro-Catholic

This page should be deleted. The term itself is a pro-Catholic NNPOV.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 17:24, 13 March 2009 (UTC) ---

While it is pretty unclear, the term has come up in an AP Modern Euro assignment, suggesting it has some credence. Can anyone with more expertise help? Pillcrow (talk) 08:12, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

N-NPOV, okay. But sorry, what is an AP Modern Euro assignment? “An AP assignment to Bangkok followed.” (Neal Ulevich). But that's a different continent. And for the Magisterial Reformation term: Protestant Reformers.--Schwab7000 (talk) 11:55, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

The term is not pro-Catholic--it shows up fairly often in scholarly literature on the Reformation. Its primary purpose is to distinguish the Lutheran, Anglican, and Reformed Reformations (which used secular authority to enforce religious changes) from the Radical Reformation of the Anabaptists, etc. --Serogers02 (talk) 02:19, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I've done a re-write

There seemed to be a lot of repetition and unnecessary information (e.g. "the Reformation marked the start of Protestantism" ) on this page, with topics not being addressed in order.
I've reorderd the material to remove the repetitions and to have the theological aspect of the Magisterial Reformation come after the secular and not in the middle.
Apart from "the Reformation marked the start of Protestantism" bit, I haven't removed anything of substance, as can been seen by my having managed to keep all the original footnotes.
I did add a cross-reference to St Augustine, as I guess that that's an example of an authoritative church teacher that the original author had in mind. Apologies if I've got that wrong. Redpaul1 (talk) 09:32, 29 January 2025 (UTC)