The twentieth century brought in a new experience. There had been some earlier instances where it was said that people spoke in tongues, but none were as clearly documented as that of Agnes Ozman, a young college student at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas on January 1, 1901. She was a student of Charles Parham who had been studying the Baptism in the Holy Spirit as recorded in Acts chapter two. The news of this event began to spread throughout Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Soon this Pentecostal message spread to the west coast to Los Angeles, California. There at the Azusa Street Revival lead by an ex-slave, William J. Seymour, the Pentecostal movement was off and running. Pentecostalism spread widely throughout urban and suburban areas of America. Because it began in services with both black and white believers, it did not discriminate. Because of the racial lines that divided the nation at that time, the churches began to flourish separately in both black and white communities. The Assemblies of God also felt deeply about spreading the message of salvation into the world. A primary reason the General Council (of the Assemblies of God) was formed in 1914 was to create cooperation in Pentecostal missionary work. In the following century, this movement that began at Azusa Street would be a dominant element in the global Christian landscape.
Could the Pentecostal movement be called a Second Reformation? Let’s compare our criteria of the First Reformation to the Pentecostal movement. First, there is a connection with mass communication and technology. Because of the invention of the radio and television, programs like Revival Time radio broadcasts and numerous television programs broadcasting Christian television ...
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...tional and global appeal, and spread rapidly through relevant communication or technology. Many of these events were not salvific in nature, but equally as transforming in nature.
Anyone at anytime could deem something the Second Reformation, and many have. With the religious culture so divided as it is today, I feel for certain that we could never come to a consensus in that term. However, our religious and social culture is due for another event that would equal the Reformation in scope. All it would take is for God to reveal it to a man or woman who through diligent study could proclaim that message boldly. It might be a reformation of social justice, or cell groups, or a reformation of the Spirit in the hearts and souls of mankind. But it will have to be initiated by God to man. It might not even be called a Second Reformation… it might just be called Revival.
The reformation was a religious and political movement that took place in the year 1517. This movement was spread by the Cristian humanist Martin Luther, when he posted his “Ninety Five Theses”. The reformation itself is one of those things everybody has heard about but no one quite understands, even nowadays, 500 years after this movement occurred.
The Reformation occurred all over Western Europe. It was mostly set in Germany where various parts of corruption in the Church happened. Martin Luther started the process of the Reformation, he was German so he understood how the Catholic Church took advantage and didn't think this was fair. The Catholic Reformation took place between 1450-1650 which was the biggest revolution in Germany, although the understanding of Luther's actions weren't taken notice of until he put the 95 Theses on the Church's door. Luther felt that Bishops and Priests didn't understand the bible correctly. Luther wanted the Reformation to help fix this by helping the uneducated and powerless. Some of the movement of this was
The Protestant Reformation was a period of time (1500-1700) where there became a change in Western Christendom. This reformation was caused by the resentment from the people because the Catholic Church abusing their powers for political and economic advances. In this time the church was selling pardons for sin and indulgences to forgive sins, decrease days spent in purgatory and save the dead from damnation. The reformation was when people became more aware with the back hand dealings with the church and men like Martin Luther and John Calvin created their own churches to what they believed was not corrupt unlike the church. Unfortunately there many consequences as far at the Roman Catholic church attempting to bring people back to the church,
The Reformation began long before its official start date in 1517, while its consequences are still in effect today. Ideas of reformation began in the middle of the 14th century. By the 16th century the Catholic church sought reform from within itself because between the 14th and 16th centuries the church was faced with a significant decline in authority. Reformers, such as John Wycliffe, Erasmus, and Martin Luther, played significant roles as the source of the Reformation, however; there are other provoking source - indulgences along with the art and literature of the time- and the components combined created unfortunate consequences and positive solutions to the declining authority of the Church.
The Reformation was a really important era in history and it came right after the Renaissance. The Renaissance was seen as a period where it was a time of religion, and art flourished. The Renaissance and the Reformation can be compared and contrasted because the Renaissance was a time of rebirth, and so was the Reformation, however the rebirth brought forth different ideas. Since during the Renaissance there was such a bond between religion and government it triggered the rebellion of many people within the countries. During the Renaissance when questions were raised that went against what the Church thought, The Catholic church pushed the idea that salvation could only be found in the church. However, a Christian monk from Eisleben in the Holy Roman Empire(Martin Luther, CCEL) named Martin Luther interpreted a bible passage stating "just shall live by his faith" to mean that faith alone would save their souls he began to challenge the church. This started the Reformation.
There was a catalytic event that occurred throughout the mid-1700s to the early 1800s, known as the Second Great Awakening. This event was the slow reformation of Puritan doctrine which lead to new denominations...
The Protestant Reformation began in the early 16th century, and was a religious, political, and cultural movement to expose the corruption of the Catholic Church. It all began in Germany with Martin Luther and his 95 Theses. Luther didn’t like some of the things that the Catholic Church were doing such as selling indulgences, and being the middlemen between God and the people. Therefore, Luther posted his 95 Theses, which were tweaks to the way the church operated. Luther never wanted or expected it to become a major religious revolution against the church, rather he simply wanted the church to make the changes. Regardless of Luther’s intentions, the Protestant Reformation had significant short-term and long-term causes and consequences for western civilization.
The Protestant Reformation was a major European movement in the 16th century that reformed the Catholic Church. The Reformation imposed in medieval Christianity, this was toward the beginning of the modern era. A German Augustinian by the name of Martin Luther King (1483-1546) put a document called the 95 thesis in a town called Wittenburg. HIs 95 thesis challenged some important Roman Catholic beliefs.
Heaton, Allan. An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print.
The protestant reformation of 16th century had both: immediate and long term effects. Thus, we can see that it was a revolution of understanding the essence of religion, and of what God is. The protestant reformation is said to a religious movement. However, it also influenced the economical, political and social life of people. The most global, short term effect of the reformation was the reevaluation of beliefs, and, as a result, the loss of authority of the Holy Roman Empire. The long term effects were: the emergence of new heretical movements, the declining of papacy, thus the reevaluation of people’s view on the church and life values.
The Reformation was a decisive period in the history not only for the Catholic Church, but also for the entire world. The causes of this tumultuous point in history did not burst on the scene all at once, but slowly gained momentum like a boil that slowly festers through time before it finally bursts open. The Reformation of the Church was inevitable because of the abuses which the Church was suffering during this period. At the time of the Reformation, a segment of the Church had drifted away from its mission to bring Christ and salvation to the world. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Church had gradually become weaker because of abusive leadership, philosophical heresy, and a renewal of a form of the Pelagian heresy.
Reformation was a major European movement initially aimed at reforming the beliefs and practices of
In spite of religious controversies the Reformation is a period of economic revolution, as mercantilism and commercial capitalism gains strength. Science and mathematics come to influence nearly every fact of life. The unity of Christianity was now broken up into the Protestants and the Catholics. Protestantism was the religious background for nationalism and, each nation became independent and the power of the rulers was increased.
The Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century is one of the most complex movements in European history since the fall of the Roman Empire. The Reformation truly ends the Middle Ages and begins a new era in the history of Western Civilization. The Reformation ended the religious unity of Europe and ushered in 150 years of religious warfare. By the time the conflicts had ended, the political and social geography in the west had fundamentally changed. The Reformation would have been revolutionary enough of itself, but it coincided in time with the opening of the Western Hemisphere to the Europeans and the development of firearms as effective field weapons. It coincided, too, with the spread of Renaissance ideals from Italy and the first stirrings of the Scientific Revolution. Taken together, these developments transformed Europe.
The sixteenth century was a time when the acts and teachings of all religions came under a great amount of scrutiny. As a result, there was a great division from the dominant Roman Catholic Church; this was known as the Protestant Reformation. There were many factors in the coming of the Reformation, but the three worthy of note are the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, the leadership of Martin Luther, and the invention of the printing press.