Paradigms For Romans

The Reform movement believes in welcoming into its synagogues intermarried couples, whether or not the non-Jewish partner is a potential candidate for conversion to Judaism, and even when their children are being raised as both Jews and Christians. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the era of Reformation was studied as a purely religious phenomenon.(Dunn 21)

It wasn't until the late seventeenth century that Reformation was used as a term to describe an era in church history. Veit Ludwig von Seckendorf's Historical and Apologetic Commentary on Lutheranism or the Reformation was the first work to reformation in this sense. (Dunn ...