The one was a new way of looking at things, a fresh {188} intellectual start, without definite program or organization.

The other was primarily a thesis: a set of tenets the object of which was concrete action.

The Reformation began in France as a school of thought, but it soon grew to a political party and a new church, and finally it evolved into a state within the state.
[Sidenote: Christian Renaissance] Though it is not safe to date the French Reformation before the influence of Luther was felt, it is possible to see an indigenous reform that naturally prepared the way for it.

Its harbinger was Lefevre d'Etaples.

This "little Luther" wished to purify the church, to set aside the "good works" thereof in favor of faith, and to make the Bible known to the people.