Further to my recent musing on the difference between Evangelicals of the eighteenth century onwards and the Reformers of the sixteenth here, I am now thinking that the root difference was that the Reformers looked for 'revival' through a top-down reformation of theology and worship, where as the Evangelicals looked for the change in hearts of individual Christians which would then lead to the reformation of society. [Phew long sentence]
So a monarchal compared to a democratic approach.
This is no doubt partly a result of the Enlightenment but also other factors.
The Puritans may form a bridge between the two in England.
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