Invention of printing
From technological progress to a new era. The development of the typographic printing press had a considerable impact on the diffusion of ideas: it was this which made the rapid...
Paul Conord (1896-1985)
Pastor Paul Conord held many positions of reponsibility in the Eglise Réformée de France and later in the Fédération Protestante de France. His special contribution was the study of sociology...
La faculté de théologie adventiste
La faculté de théologie adventiste de Collonges, créée en 1921, a pour fonction première de former les pasteurs de l’Église adventiste pour le monde francophone.
MCQ – Progress Report of this tour
Wolfgang Capiton (1478-1541)
Wolfgang Capiton, an Alsatian theologian and reformer, took part in introducing the Reformation in Strasbourg.
Martin Luther King Junior (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was an Afro-American Baptist pastor and the leader of the non-violent Evangelical fight against racial discrimination in the United-States. A major character of the 20th century,...
La faculté Jean Calvin d’Aix-en-Provence
La faculté libre de théologie protestante d’Aix-en-Provence, créée en 1939 puis mise en sommeil, a été « refondée » en 1973. L’enseignement qui y est proposé se veut confessant et...
André-Numa Bertrand (1876-1946)
André-Numa Bertrand, pasteur réformé et théologien libéral, est un des principaux acteurs de la création de l’Église réformée de France en 1938. Vice-président de la Fédération protestante de France (FPF),...
Société d’études du méthodisme français
Des millions de personnes de par le monde suivent encore les méthodes de John Wesley, qui est considéré par beaucoup comme un grand réformateur et qui a dit : «...
Sur les pas des Huguenots
Du Poët-Laval (Drôme) à Bad Karlshafen (Allemagne), en passant par Genève, un itinéraire culturel européen marche sur les traces de l’exil des Huguenots dauphinois, au lendemain de la révocation de...
Summary : the beginnings and development of Protestantism
Cultural consequences of independence from the Catholic Church
The Reform Movement was an integral part of the cultural revolution started by the Humanists. At this time religious belief dictated how you led your life, how you understood the...
Political consequences of independence from the Catholic Church
The fact that Catholics and Protestants were now split into two separate faiths led to many conflicts between the two groups. XVIth century France was divided into two parts and...
Religious consequences of the break from the Catholic Church
With the Calvinist and Lutheran beliefs, resulting from the Reform Movement, new Christian Churches began to evolve which were independent from the Catholic Church; they developed in different ways according...
Who was Jean Calvin?
Jean Calvin was a lawyer, a humanist who agreed with Martin Luther’s new ideas and became a great theologian. He was obliged to leave France for Geneva where he designed...
Who was Martin Luther?
Luther was a monk, a professor of theology. He criticised the customs of the Catholic Church such as selling indulgences, which he deemed contrary to Bible teachings. He was excommunicated...
Jean Calvin’s ideas
Calvin extended Luther’s ideas. He helped French-speaking Protestant Churches develop. He insisted on predestination that liberated people from worrying about what was going to happen after death so that they...
Martin Luther’s ideas
Martin Luther was a preacher, a theologian and a translator.
Events around the rupture
Several events illustrate the split that the Protestant Reformation provoked with the former religious order imposed by the Catholic Church.
Pastor Louis Dallière (1897-1976), Reformed-Pentecostal
Louis Dallière, a pastor in the Evangelical Reformed Church (ERE), influenced by Pentecostal ideas in the 1930s, became the leader of this spiritual movement in Ardèche. He led the parishes...