Reformation Vs Protestant Reformation

The Reformation era was a time period taken to clean up the church and to lose all corruption. With figures like Martin Luther the church found that people were starting to break away from the church and become faithful to other religions such as Lutheranism and Calvinism. Although, the renaissance had many advancements the reformation and the Counter Reformation paved the way for new branches in religion, foundations of the modern church, and

During the Reformation era people started to cut loose from the church because of all the corruption. The church realized this during the Protestant Reformation and decided to start to clean up the church and then fight back against the Protestants with the Counter Reformation which was a series of reforms

New advancements were made in art, literature, and science. During the Renaissance new styles of art were created and were used by some of the most famous artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Bramante, and Raphael. The artists of the Renaissance wanted to paint as realistically as possible so they studied perspective. Using perspective, artists could display three dimensional designs on flat surfaces. Some famous paintings and sculptures include The Last Supper, The Mona Lisa both by Leonardo da Vinci. Pieta, David, and the paintings on The Sistine Chapel all by Michelangelo. Along with advancements in art, philosophers and writers also had new ideas. Desiderius Erasmus is a good example of developments in philosophy. He wrote extensively about the need of a simple pure Christian life. Another example is a man named Sir Thomas More. More was best known for his novel Utopia. It contained criticism of the English government, society and a vision of a perfect yet nonexistent society. Finally, another group of people to progress were scientists and astronomers like Galileo Galilei. ‘’Scientists and astronomers challenged the ideas of the church about nature.’’ The Church however, did not like the views that astronomers like Galileo and Copernicus had. The idea they had was similar in which the Earth orbited the

Both branches coming from big figures of the Reformation. Without the protesting of the church Christianity would not be as big as it is today. Lutheranism separate to the Roman Catholic church Lutheranism is not an individual presence , “It is organized in autonomous regional or national churches, such as the Church of Sweden.” Calvinism created by Jon Calvin teaches the idea of Predestination. Calvinism spread throughout Europe challenging Lutheranism and eventually found its way into Scotland influencing the Puritans of New England. The religion then was expressed in the United States by the modified theology of New England. In modern times in the ‘’Reformed theology of Karl Barth, the Calvinist stress on the sovereignty of God found new and vital expression.’’ Both lutheranism and Calvinism have faithful followers today and are still big parts of Christianity. As shown above, without the the times of the Reformation these branches would not have been established and Christianity would not be as big as it is