The Czech Reformation, its development in the second half of the 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th century

Abstract

The Czech Reformation occupies a special place in the history of the European Reformation. It began at a time when the situation in other European countries was not yet ripe for the Reformation theses.

The very rich Protestant literature (especially German) does not include Hus and the subsequent movement with all its directions in the Reformation at all. A breakthrough is the work of the Czech Protestant historian Amedeo Molnár, who does not consider the triple sola as a Reformation principle and offered a much broader conception of the Reformation and its plausible periodization.

Keywords

• development of the Czech Reformation
• 2nd half of the 16th century
• beginning of the 17th century
• Amedeo Molnár