Calvin was invited back to Geneva to resume his program of religious reform. (firstthings.com)
When religious reform swept through Europe in the 16th century, improving the people's use of their day of rest was a concern of Protestant and Catholic leaders alike. (religion-online.org)
The ambition to present a synoptic account of the multiple sixteenth - century movements for religious «reform,» Catholic and Protestant, has led some historians to search for a single interpretative framework for the reform impulse, to suggest that fundamental similarities underlay sixteenth - century religious reform wherever it occurred. (firstthings.com)