The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For much of Christian history reformation was an ongoing and open-ended process.

Many standard histories of Christianity chronicle the Reformation as a single, momentous period in the history of the Church. According to those accounts, a number of competing groups of reformers ...

HULL, England — The number of practicing Catholics in Britain now exceeds the number of practicing Anglicans for the first time since the Reformation. Catholic parishes, especially in the major cities ...