Jan Laski, the Younger

…an influential Reformed theologian in Jan Łaski (d. 1560), the Counter-Reformation reduced Reformed churches to the status of a small sect in Poland by the 17th century. In 1648 there were still more than 200 Reformed congregations, but by the late 20th century there were only eight congregations in Poland,…

…1547, as either the Pole Jan Laski the Younger or the Englishman Nicholas Ridley, both men possessed of a more determined and unquestioning temper than was the archbishop. The ferment of those years also produced Cranmer’s Forty-two Articles (1553), a set of doctrinal formulas defining the dogmatic position of the…

…debate with the Polish Reformer Jan Laski, or Johannes à Lasco (b. 1499, Warsaw, Poland—d. 1560). The next two years, 1544–46, were spent in the Rhineland, after which Menno traveled from his new home base in Holstein, near Oldesloe, northeast of Hamburg, until his death in 1561. Here he found…