Arguments Against The Protestant Reformation
The Struggle for Reformation
The fight for change can be a very short and easy or long and overwhelming task. Many people around the world fight everyday for change, whether it be because of racial discrimination, difference in political views, or just ignorance and bullheadedness, but all the fights have one thing in common, people banding together to fight for their beliefs. The Protestant Reformation was argumentatively the biggest of its time and possibly history. It was a small group of people, led by one man, fighting against the Catholic Church to change some of the ways in which it makes people believe. To get rid of the corruption deep within the church’s veins. Martin Luther, a monk from the Catholic Church, may have never known …show more content…
The main belief behind it was that power should be taken from the clergy and papual powers should be reinvested into following the word of the Bible. “In the initial years in response to Luther’s 95 Theses Germany fell into political and instability in large swaths of Europe,” according to Origins.edu. Many German princes supported Martin Luther after he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by the Diet of Worms headed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. The Reformation leaked into Switzerland “with the sermons of Ulrich Zwingli, whose teachings largely paralleled Luther’s,” as told by …show more content…
It can be placed officially anywhere between 1555, ending with the signing of the Treaty of Augsburg, all the way to 1648 which was the end of the 30 Years War. After 131 years of long, hard fighting and squabble things were finally settled and the Catholics and Protestants went their separate ways. Change and struggle are just miniscule words to describe the hardship and labors these newly found Protestants faced in their fight for equality and equalness in the eyes of God. It all started with people wanting more belief in the holy book and less belief in self proclaimed holy men and ended in Germany losing close to forty percent of its population due to fighting between the Catholics and Protestants. Martin Luther passed away in 1546, 102 years before the official end of the Reformation. How would he have felt had he saw the end of the movement he helped set into
The fight for change can be a very short and easy or long and overwhelming task. Many people around the world fight everyday for change, whether it be because of racial discrimination, difference in political views, or just ignorance and bullheadedness, but all the fights have one thing in common, people banding together to fight for their beliefs. The Protestant Reformation was argumentatively the biggest of its time and possibly history. It was a small group of people, led by one man, fighting against the Catholic Church to change some of the ways in which it makes people believe. To get rid of the corruption deep within the church’s veins. Martin Luther, a monk from the Catholic Church, may have never known …show more content…
The main belief behind it was that power should be taken from the clergy and papual powers should be reinvested into following the word of the Bible. “In the initial years in response to Luther’s 95 Theses Germany fell into political and instability in large swaths of Europe,” according to Origins.edu. Many German princes supported Martin Luther after he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by the Diet of Worms headed by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. The Reformation leaked into Switzerland “with the sermons of Ulrich Zwingli, whose teachings largely paralleled Luther’s,” as told by …show more content…
It can be placed officially anywhere between 1555, ending with the signing of the Treaty of Augsburg, all the way to 1648 which was the end of the 30 Years War. After 131 years of long, hard fighting and squabble things were finally settled and the Catholics and Protestants went their separate ways. Change and struggle are just miniscule words to describe the hardship and labors these newly found Protestants faced in their fight for equality and equalness in the eyes of God. It all started with people wanting more belief in the holy book and less belief in self proclaimed holy men and ended in Germany losing close to forty percent of its population due to fighting between the Catholics and Protestants. Martin Luther passed away in 1546, 102 years before the official end of the Reformation. How would he have felt had he saw the end of the movement he helped set into