Catholics and Heretics - Some Aspects of Religious Debates in the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Catholics and Heretics - Some Aspects of Religious Debates in the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Summary/Abstract: In the 1560s, the whole Christian community in Poland was challenged by the crisis in the Polish Calvinist church after the death in 1560 of Jan Łaski, a figure significant both for the Polish and English Reformations. Deprived of the powerful and dedicated leadership of Łaski, the Polish Reformed Church soon produced an offshoot, the so-called Minor Church where dissident ministers practiced their antitrinitarian and Anabaptist beliefs.

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