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In a clear, non-technical way, this noted Reformation historian tells the story of how the nascent reforming and confessional movement sparked and led by Martin Luther survived its first battles with religious and political authorities to become institutionalized in its religious practices and teachings. Gritsch then traces the emergence of genuine consensus at the end of the sixteenth century,...

heard a camel preaching at Louvain [the location of an ultra-conservative university in Belgium] that we should have nothing to do with anything that is new.”13 The key issue was the relationship between reason and revelation, exemplified in the doctrine of transubstantiation, the attempt to explain the presence of Christ in the eucharist. The first official explanation was given at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215; it became normative dogma in 1551 at the Council of Trent. The “explanation” of
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