“Restoring the Restoration”
Well-meaning (and perhaps some not so well-meaning) men have been trying to reform the church since the Apostles left this life. I know that many women were involved, but men’s cultural bias against women has left a void for many years, in all church movements, through the mistreatment of women in the church. There have been sects within the Catholic church that tried to restore the early church and eschewed the growing dominance of added Papal doctrines. The most aggressive attempts at reform of the Catholic church and restoration of the early church began almost the second Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door. Sadly, the numerous divisions between the Catholics and Protestants are not easy to keep up.