Differentiation Of Beliefs And Practices During The Protestant Reformation

In order to understand how this Protestant Reformation started leading to the differentiation of beliefs and practices, we need to look at what cause this movement to happen in the first place. The Catholic Church started to involve itself in the teaching and sales of indulgences, with its profit being use a fund by the church. An indulgence is supposed to wipe off the sins of a Christian. During the reign of Pope Leo X, the sales of indulgence exponentially grew because the church needed funding to rebuild St. Peter Basilica. But, Martin Luther who thoroughly studied the scripture to become a monk started to criticize the Catholic Church’s actions. This led him in 1527 to write the “Ninety-Five Theses,” which he nailed a copy to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church
The Protestant set the steps towards the public education system. The Protestant Church acted as an arm of the state; rather than control everything like the Catholic Church (Matthews, Platt, and Nobel 369). It establishes that schools should be paid through taxes and make teachers as government employees (Matthews, Platt, and Nobel 369). They emphasize that everyone needs to learn how to read and write. In doing so, one will learn the Bible and be able to teach it to others. This is particularly important because today we enjoy the public education system here at our country that is paid by the taxes. In fact, the rise of modern sovereign countries was paved the way by the Protestant Reformation. They challenged the Pope’s authority over regional rulers. This gave the way for Kings to take complete control over their own kingdoms. For doing so, the Pope now has no control over the majority of Europe. In addition, it sowed the seeds for modern Democracy, causing over six-hundred thousand peasant to revolt which was the largest until the French