Second Reformation

The term Second Reformation has been used in a number of contexts in Protestantism, implying a new or continuing Reformation.

In Germany and Northern Europe, it generally refers to a period of Calvinist pressure on Lutheranism from about 1560 to 1619.
The "Dutch Second Reformation" or Nadere Reformatie is usually placed rather later, from about 1600 onwards, and had much in common with English Puritanism.
For the Scottish Second Reformation in the 17th century, see Covenanters.
In the Church of Ireland and Church of England, the Second Reformation was an evangelical campaign from the 1820s onwards, organised by theological conservatives.
The Long Reformation is seen as a continuation of the mid sixteenth century legislative break from Rome and adoption of Protestant theology and worship by a multi-generational cultural Protestanization