In 1548, two years after the death of Martin Luther, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V tried to unite Catholics and Protestants in his realm with a law called the Augsburg Interim.
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Good examples of the latitudinarian philosophy were found among the Cambridge Platonists.
The Leipzig Interim was harder enforce on the Catholic side than the Augsburg interim, and caused a split in the Protestant side between Philippists and Gnesio-Lutherans, the so-called adiaphora controversies.