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</noinclude><section begin="s1"/>a sunny open, remote from the unfathomable depths of mystery

and clouds of religious emotion which beset the way of the

sincere Catholic and Protestant alike.

The effects of the Protestant secession on the doctrines,

organization and practices of the Roman Catholic Church are

difficult to estimate, still more so to substantiate. It

ggszolle is clear that the doctrinal conclusions of the council

5'f°""'“' of Trent were largely determined by the necessity

of condemning Protestant tenets, and that the result

of the council was to give the Roman Catholic faith a more

precise form than it would otherwise have had. It is much

less certain that the disciplinary reforms which the council,

following the example of its predecessors, re-enacted, owed

anything to Protestantism, unless indeed the council would have

shown itself less intolerant in respect to such innovations as the

use of the vernacular in the services had this not smacked of

evangelicalism. In the matter of the pope's supremacy, the

council followed the canon law and Thomas Aquinas, not

the decrees of the council of Constance. It prepared the way

for the dogmatic formulation of the plenitude of the papal

power three centuries later by the council of the Vatican. The

Protestants have sometimes taken credit to themselves for the

indubitable reforms in the Roman Catholic Church, which by

the end of the 16th century had done away with many of the

crying abuses against which councils and diets had so long been

protesting. But this conservative reformation had begun

before Luther's preaching, and might conceivably have followed

much the same course had his doctrine never found popular

favour or been ratified by the princes. I

“In conclusion, a word may be said of the place of the Reformation

in the history of progress and enlightenment. A

The place “ philosopher, ” las Giblqon Eng haglp poinéed out,

0f¢l1¢ ~ who asks from w at artic es o ait a one an against

5°f°;'”; reason the early Reformers enfranchised their followers

hggog, of will be surprised at their timidity rather than scandal progress.

ized by their freedom. They remained severely

orthodox in the doctrines of the Fathers-the Trinity, the

Incarnation, the plenary inspiration of the Bible—and they

condemned those who rejected their teachings to a hell whose

fires they were not tempted to extenuate. Although they surrendered

transubstantiation, the loss of one mystery was amply

compensated by the stupendous doctrines of original sin,

redemption, faith, grace and predestination upon which they

founded their theory of salvation. They ceased to appeal to

the Virgin and saints, and to venerate images and relics, procure

indulgences and go on pilgrimages, they deprecated the monastic

life, and no longer nourished faith by the daily repetition of

miracles, but in the witch persecutions their demonology cost

the lives of thousands of innocent women. They broke the

chain of authority, without, however, recognizing the propriety

of toleration. In any attempt to determine the relative importance

of Protestant and Catholic countries in promoting

modern progress it must not be forgotten that religion is naturally

conservative, and that its avowed business has never been

to forward scientific research or political reform. Luther and

his contemporaries had not in any degree the modern idea of

progress, which first becomes conspicuous with Bacon and

Descartes, but lielieved, on the contrary, that the strangling

of reason was the most precious of offerings to God. “ Freethinker

”- and “ rationalist ” have been terms of opprobrium

whether used by Protestants or Catholics. The pursuit of

salvation does not dominate by any means the whole life and

ambition of even ardent believers; statesmen, philosophers,

men of letters, scientific investigators and inventors have

commonly gone their way regardless of the particular form of

Christianity which prevailed in the land in which they lived.

The Reformation was, fundamentally, then, but one phase,

if the most conspicuous, in the gradual decline of the majestic

medieval ecclesiastical State, for this decline has gone on

in France, Austria, Spain and Italy, countries in which

the Protestant revolt against the ancient Church ended' in

failure,

BIBLIOGRAPHY.-Reference is made here mainly to works dealing

with the Reformation as a whole. Only recent books are mentioned,

since the older works have been largel superseded owing

to modern critical investigations: Thomas M. Lindsay, A History

of the Reformation, 2 vols. (1906-7), the best general treatment;

The Cambridge Modern History, vol. i. (1902), chaps. xviii. and xix.,

vol. ii. (IQOQ), “ The Reformation, ” and vol. iii. (1905), “ The Wars

of Religion, ' with very full bibliographies; M. Creighton, History

gf the Papaey during the Reformation, 6 vols. (new ed. 1899-1901).

rom a Catholic standpoint: L. Pastor, Geschichte der Pdpste

seit dem Ausgang des Mittelalters (1891 sqq., especially vol. iv. in

two parts, 1906'7, and vol. v., 1909). This is in course of publication

and is being translated into English (8 vols. have appeared,

ISQI-208, covering the period 1305-1521); J. Janssen, History

of the erman People at the Close of the Middle Ages, 12 vols., 1896-1907,

corresponding to vols. i.-vi. of the German original, in 8vols.,

edited by Pastor, 1897-1904. This is the standard Catholic treatment

of the Reformation, and is being sup lemented by a series of

monographs, Ergdnzungen zu Janssens geschichte des deutschen

Volkes, which have been appearing since 1898 and correspond

with the Protestant Schriften des Vereins fur Reformationsgeschichte

(1883 sqq.). P. von Bezold, Geschichte der deutschen

Reformation (1890), an excellent illustrated account; E. Troeltsch,

Protestantisches Christentum und Kirche der Neuzeit, in the series

“ Kultur der Gegenwart, " Teil i. Abt. 4, i. Halfte, 1905; Charles

Beard, The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to

Modern Thought and Knowledge (The Hibbert Lectures for 1883),

and by the same, Martin Luther, vol. i. (no more published; 1889);

A. Harnack, History of Dogma (trans. from the 3rd German edition,

vol. vii., 1900); A. E. Berger, Die Kulturaufgaben der Reformation

(znd ed., 1908); Thudichum, Pafsttum und Reformation (1903);

“ ]anus, ” The Pope and the Counci (1869), by Dollinger and others,

a suggestive if not wholly accurate sketch of the papal claims;

W. Maurenbrecher, Geschichte der Katholischen Reformation, vol. i.

(no more published) (1880); J. Haller, Papsttum und Kirchenreform,

vol. i. (1903) relates to the 14th century; ]. Kostlin, Martin Luther,

sein Leben und seine Schréften, new edition by Kawerau, 2 vols.,

1903, the most useful lie of Luther; H. Denifie, Luther und

Luthertum, 2 vols. (1904-6), a bitter but learned arraignment of

H. Boehmer, brief and sug-Three Primary Buchheim, -an (J. H. R.*) the industrial

Luther by a distinguished Dominican scholar.

Luther im Lichte der neueren Forschungen (1906),

gestive. First Principles of the Reformation, the

Works of Dr Martin Luther, edited by Wace and

English translation of the famous pamphlets of 1520.

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<section begin="s2"/>REFORMATORY SCHOOL, an institution for

training of juvenile offenders, in which they are lodged, clothed

and fed, as well as taught. They are to be distinguished from

“industrial schools, ” which are institutions for potential and

not actual delinquents. To reformatory schools in England

are sent juveniles up to the age of sixteen who have been convicted

of an offence punishable with penal servitude or imprisonment.

The order is made by the court before which

they are tried; the limit of detention is the age of nineteen.

Reformatory schools are regulated by the Children Act 1908,

which repealed the Reformatory Schools Act 1866, as amended

by acts of 1872, 1874, 1891, 1893, 1899 and 1901. See further

JUVENILE OFFENDERS.

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<section begin="s3"/>REFORMED CHURCHES, the name assumed by those Protestant

bodies who adopted the tenets of Zwingli (and later of

Calvin), as distinguished from those of the Lutheran or Evangelical

divines. They are accordingly often spoken of as the Calvinistic

Churches, Protestant being sometimes used as a synonym

for Lutheran. The great difference is in the attitude towards

the Lord's Supper, the Reformed or Calvinistic Churches repudiating

not only transubstantiation but also the Lutheran

consubstantiation. They also reject the use of crucifixes and

other symbols and ceremonies retained by the Lutherans.

Full details of these divergences are given in M. Schneckenburger,

Vergleiehende Darstellung des lutherischen und reformierten Lehrbegrifs

(Stuttgart, 1855); G. B. Winer, Comparative Darstellung

(Berlin, 1866; Eng. tr., Edinburgh, 1873). See also REFORMATION;

PRESBYTERIANISM; CAMERONIANS.

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<section begin="s4"/>REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA, until 1867 called officially

“The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North

America, ” and still popularly called the Dutch Reformed

Church, an American Calvinist church, originating with the

Settlers from Holland in New York, New Tersey and Delaware,

the first permanent settlers of the Reformed faith in the New

World. Their earliest settlements were at Manhattan, Wallabout

and Fort Orange (now Albany), where the West India

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