Creeds and Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Netherlands

Introduction The beginning of the Reformation in the Netherlands does not have a single person or single event in the life of a person as its focus as does the beginning of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, or Scotland. In Germany the publication of Luther's 95 theses is inseparably connected with the beginning of the Reformation in that country, and Luther is the central figure. In Switzerland Zwingli and Calvin are the main figures, and the public disputations between Zwingli and...