It is very naïve to think that the upheavals of the reformation were all about religion itself per se - they extended dramatically into every aspect of the Christian Community - whether this was World-wide, national or a local 'community' like a parish or a church. Reformers not only reformed religion then - they sought to define how people should act and interact with each other. This went as far as redefining education, gender roles, the place of men and women in family life, morality and social discipline, etc. Reformers wanted people to 'live the christian life' and they orchestrated ways to either coerce or force people to abide by their interpretations of living as a 'good christian' ought to. In many places, particularly in Calvinist areas, this was monitored by a court-like system known as the consistory where appointed men sat in judgement over these topics, using religious teachings and doctrinal positions as their framework for monitoring and creating a god fear, true, Christian community.
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Links
John Craig, 'Reformers, Conflict, and Revisionism: The Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Hadleigh,' The Historical Journal 42 no.1 (1999): 1-23.
