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==Historical examples of syncretism==
===Syncretistic attempts of Calvinists for union with the Lutheran church===
The [[Brandenburg]] Kurfürst Johann Sigismund converted to the [[Reformed]] aka [[Calvinist]] faith on 25th December 1613. This developed a gap between his [[Hohenzollern]] house and their subjects, especially the Mark Brandenburg population which remained [[Lutheran]]. The Reformed faith became the court and official religion and the next Kurürst, Friedrich Wilhelm, who had been brought up in the Reformed Niederlanden, i.e. [[Netherlands]], demanded the acceptance of his own (Reformed) minority faith and its followers who were mostly foreigners, brought into the Mark Brandenburg from abroad after the [[Thirty Years' War]]. Kurürst attacked Lutheran church and its clergy by repealing of the so called Formula Concordiae at ordination and by furhter restrictive measures through an edict of 2nd June 1662. That caused the [[Wittenberg]] University to publish a paper entitled ''"Epikrisis de Colloquio Casselano Rintelino-Marpurgensium"'' which declared any union with Reformed members to be impossible, since in their opinion, the Reformed doctrine had a tendency to minimalise, to think in relative terms and for agnosticism in questions of faith. The orthodox-Lutheran clergy saw in every concession to the Reformed members the introduction of Syncretism that would lead to the rule of Calvinism and to be suspected of being a Syncretist was about the most severe reproach one could give to a 17th century Lutheran theologian.<ref>{{cite book |title=Paul Gerhardt 1607 - 1676 An Illustrated Biography |author=Hans-Joachim Beeskow |publisher=Heimat-Verlag Lübben |isbn=3-929600-33-1 |url= |quote=}}</ref>
==Notes==
==Notes==
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