The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century revolt that changed not only Europe but the whole world in terms of politics and religious freedom that essentially led us to the modern world that we live in today. In Western Europe, Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry VIII, the most influential and important reformers questioned the corrupted Catholic Church. This led to protests, wars, bloodshed, and of course the founding of Protestantism. Many people were against this new ideology yet, many were also for it; this began the Age of Reformation. There were several factors that contributed to the Protestant Reformation, however the most significant reasons were the following; the invention of the printing press, the corruption of the Catholic …show more content…
Before this invention, letters, maps, books, messages all had to be written by hand and would be very tedious and require hard work. The bible, which was the most popular book at the time “might require the skins of 300 sheep to make the parchment sheets”(Levack, Muir and Veldman, 2011, p.429) which is very costly and requires many hours of labour to recopy the texts. Because of the heavy cost only the high-class would be able to afford the books. The invention of the moveable metal type as well as the printing press revolutionized books, letters, and maps. It was now easier to print and read the texts that were being copied with this new invention. The following is a part of a letter that the future Pope Prius II wrote to Cardinal Carvajal, detailing how the printing press changed reading and books at the …show more content…
The Church grew to be extremely influential, they controlled everything, the people relied on the church and especially the priests to have everlasting glory in Heaven. The church was also very wealthy, they raised revenue in every way they could, through; Relics:These were officially sanctioned by the Vatican. They were pieces of straw, hay, white feathers from a dove, pieces of the cross etc. that could be sold to people as the things that had been the nearest to Jesus on Earth. The money raised went straight to the church and to the Vatican. These holy relics were keenly sought after as the people saw their purchase as a way of pleasing God. It also showed that you had honoured Him by spending your money on relics associated with his
All of Europe used to be united under one religion, Catholicism. Europe started inching away from Catholicism during the 13th - 15th centuries. The church leaders started to only think about money and the power they held, instead of the real reason they were supposed to be there, God. This caused an uprising of people who no longer wanted to be a part of the Catholic church, nicknamed Protestants because they protested the ways of the catholic church. The Protestant Reformation was caused by corruption in the church, Martin Luther and John Calvin’s ideas, and the clergy and their preachings.
Social and economic stresses of The Protestant Reformation age were just among few of the things that impacted the ordinary population of Europe. The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, and cultural disorder that divided Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the ordinary population. In northern and central Europe, reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry VIII challenged papal authority and questioned the Catholic Church’s ability to define Christian practice. In 1555 The Peace of Augsburg allowed for the coexistence of Catholicism and Lutheranism in Germany; and in 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War. The key ideas of the Reformation, a call to purify the church and a belief that the Bible, should be the sole source of spiritual authority. However, Luther and the other reformers became the first to skillfully use the power of the printing press to give their ideas a wide audience.
Political greed and desire for land by the German princes and the education of Free Cities resulted in immense support from vast crowds which allowed for the Protestant Reformation to occur. As did the social developments included in Martin Luther’s, author of the 95 Theses, ideas of women rights, bibles/masses, and availability of literature. This developments resulted in certain groups, genders, and classes converting to Protestantism, which allowed the Protestant Reformation to establish.
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,
This caused a lot of deaths during the Reformation period because the Catholic church decided to prosecute people for following and listening to what Luther had taught them about the real Catholic Teachings. The Council of Trent was a way to stop the teachings of Catholic traditions and state clearly the renewal of the Catholic life. The work of the council was concerned with the organisation of the Church. A seminary was going to be set up for the education of priests in each diocese. During the reformation a Catechism which is a clear summary of Catholic beliefs was set out to help reform the order of Mass throughout the Catholic world which priests then helped educate and teach this understanding to Catholics. Indulgence selling was abolished which means that it was no longer a way for the Church to scavenge money and the infamous Inquisition was
with his 95 Theses. A strict father who most likely did not accept “no” as an
The protestant reformation was a theological revolution that sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church, Specifically in the areas of soteriology (doctrine of salvation) and ecclesiology (doctrine of the church). The movement began in 1517 when a monk by the name Martin Luther nailed 95 grievances to the door of a catholic church in Germany. The protestant reformation developed many theological ideas, particularly the ideas of sola fide and sola scriptura. However, the ideas centered around the reformation were not merely abstract and theological in nature, It also developed into a major political and economic movement. This is seen most clearly in the work of John Calvin and within his Geneva. Calvin, and other reformers, believed the bible
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.
Following the Protestant Reformation, a time of upheaval towards to practices of the Catholic Church, arouse a counter-reformation to the Protestants, known as the Catholic Reformation. As a result of growing uprisings against the Church’s corrupt ways, the Church was suffering from many problems and leadership issues. To put an end to these numerous complications, Pope Paul III called a council, held in the city of Trent. During the Council of Trent, some principal decisions and changes that were addressed involve the selling of indulgences, the teachings of the Catholic Faith, and dealing with the growing reformers.
The spread of Protestant Reformation was rapidly moving across the western civilization, affecting everyone and everything in its path. The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement against the Catholic Church that had failed to meet many Europeans expectations. Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus were two people who greatly affected the spread of Protestant Reformation through their teachings. Their teachings highlighted the corruption within the Catholic Church that needed to be resolved. The issues that Luther and Erasmus found proved to be going against God and his teachings.
The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. In northern and central Europe, reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry VIII challenged papal authority and questioned the Catholic Church’s ability to define Christian practice. The disruption triggered wars, persecutions and the so-called Counter-Reformation, the Catholic Church’s delayed but forceful response to the Protestants. They argued for a religious and political redistribution of power into the hands of Bible- and pamphlet-reading pastors and princes.
The Reformation brought a lot of changes and havoc to European society. One of the biggest and most obvious changes was the European society was almost broken into two different groups; protestant and catholic. This was a big deal because that means the religious unity that was always existent between everybody no longer existed. Losing that unity was one of few main concerns as implied in the way they spoke about the separation, “Those seduced by diabolical wiles should then return to the fold and unity of the church” (The Renaissance and Reformation, Wiesner-Hanks pg. 97). That quote just shows they were almost most concerned with gaining back religious unity. The religious unity kept everybody together and everybody believing in the same thing. They all lived by the same ethics and morals, worshiped the same way, and tried to live the right way according to god through the priests. The break between Martin Luther’s reformers and the Roman Catholic Church also lead to wars over religion between protestant countries like England and catholic countries like France. The Protestants and Catholics did agree on one thing, they didn’t like Jewish people and often made them leave towns and be separate.
- How did the Protestant maintain almost a century of peace in Ireland during the Protestant Ascendancy?
The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century was a religious revolution that occurred within the Christian Church, which resulted in the establishment of Protestant Churches, who began breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church. Originally the movement was started by Martin Luther, who was a monk, a priest and a Professor of Biblical study at the University of Wittenberg (Fisher 335). Luther, with his great political influence as well as his prolific writing, most notably his 95 Thesis, began a movement intended to address the abuses of wealth within the church. Although there were many people who realized that the church needed reformation, at the time, Luther really had no intention to split the church. The Protestant Reformation was an intellectual, cultural, religious, and political, upheaval that would separate Catholic Europe and set in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent. In Christianity’s history, the Protestant Reformation was one of the most significant religious revolutions.
Many say that money is power. If that’s true then no one has more power over the years then the catholic church. The people who have followed the Catholic religion over the years have always been generous with their money in even in their times of need if they had “extra” money it was most likely to use it or donate it to the Church somehow. For example back in the 1500’s the Catholic Church had a three ways of collecting and gathering money; relics, indulgences, and pilgrimages. Relics pieces of straw, hay, white feathers from a dove, maybe pieces of the cross, and so on that were often sold to people. The money raised from this went to the church and to the Vatican. The holy relics were sought after because the people of the religion saw their purchase of the relics as a way of p...