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The Reformation is a process with three steps: It starts as Reformation theology that initiates the evangelical movement that establishes a renewed church. The making of Reformation churches and the political complications of this process in the 1520s were in the focus. The presentation of the Student Fellow Holland Coleman (Baylor University) led back to John Wyclif and the Lollards and their understanding of the Antichrist. A meticulous analysis of middle English sermons of the late Fourteenth Century showed how the typological and the historical interpretation of the Antichrist merged into a radical reinterpretation of Bible and history that aimed at a practical reform of the church.