I realize that the Waldenses and Lollards will more than likely make it in the game, but I want to see the Hussites of Bohemia/Czechia, founded by Jan Hus during the Catholic Antipope turmoil of the early 1400s, to make an appearance in the game, as well. They represent another important pre-Protestant Reformation denomination of Christians that is almost identical to the core tenets of many more recent Protestant groups, with their historical and regional nuances, as the Waldensians and Lollardy also had. It is worth noting that all three of these denominations were quite strikingly similar, and had already come to represent Protestant ideals in the pre-Protestant Reformation era. Some late Roman presbyters and writers, such as Jovinianus, Helvidius, especially Vigilantius against saint/Mary prayers and relics, and also Epiphanius mainly for Iconoclastic ideas, may have possibly influenced these aforementioned High and Late Medieval groups, as well as the Early Medieval Iconoclasts, and even the principal Protestant reformers themselves; at least Jehan Cauvin/John Calvin was aware of these aforementioned Roman polemicists and preachers.
Just as there is still a Hussite Church, there is in fact a Waldensian Church that exists to this day in Italy, although they have changed on some of their positions since the Middle Ages. Notably, even during the Reformation era, most Waldensian congregations had started going Calvinist, at the urging of the Calvinists, perhaps to help offer some available political protections through an alliance with very similarly minded Christians as they were, already, yet it is important to distinguish the post-Calvin Waldensians as primarily Calvinists, whereas their Medieval forebears were not.
Despite discouraging, brutal persections, some Lollards had witnessed the rise of the Church of England, but it wasn't ever really a church influenced by the Lollard tradition, so much as a rogue Roman Catholic Church that broke apart on a national basis, and from there onward, adopted some gradual introductions of more notably Protestant theology and doctrines. Even at present, there are plenty that insist it had not gone Protestant enough. The remaining Lollards were either assimilated to become members the Church of England instituted by King Henry VIII, or joined the more similar English Baptists, Puritans, or Quakers that had emerged after the Reformation.
I wonder if the Church of England, particularly in reference to the Anglican Church as it was historically, can show up as a denomination of faith in the game, to emerge after a Norman or English culture King of England chooses to break away from Roman Catholicism, perhaps even due to a change in marriage doctrines?
Just as there is still a Hussite Church, there is in fact a Waldensian Church that exists to this day in Italy, although they have changed on some of their positions since the Middle Ages. Notably, even during the Reformation era, most Waldensian congregations had started going Calvinist, at the urging of the Calvinists, perhaps to help offer some available political protections through an alliance with very similarly minded Christians as they were, already, yet it is important to distinguish the post-Calvin Waldensians as primarily Calvinists, whereas their Medieval forebears were not.
Despite discouraging, brutal persections, some Lollards had witnessed the rise of the Church of England, but it wasn't ever really a church influenced by the Lollard tradition, so much as a rogue Roman Catholic Church that broke apart on a national basis, and from there onward, adopted some gradual introductions of more notably Protestant theology and doctrines. Even at present, there are plenty that insist it had not gone Protestant enough. The remaining Lollards were either assimilated to become members the Church of England instituted by King Henry VIII, or joined the more similar English Baptists, Puritans, or Quakers that had emerged after the Reformation.
I wonder if the Church of England, particularly in reference to the Anglican Church as it was historically, can show up as a denomination of faith in the game, to emerge after a Norman or English culture King of England chooses to break away from Roman Catholicism, perhaps even due to a change in marriage doctrines?
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