The Reformation Rhetorical Analysis

I agree the Reformation was political because it involved everybody. Charles V, the peasant class even the Pope was included in this religious conflict. After Luther’s reveal of the New Testament Charles V was too busy running an empire, but the peasants wanted in to the new way. But unfortunately unlike Jan Hus and John Wycliffe Luther did not care for the peasants. The Reformation was the Protestant Reformation and the result of that was the Counter Reformation.
Luther’s fortune was based on luck and being at the right place at the right time. The printing press was a great innovation that let Luther spread the word of god. After being captured by Fredrick of Saxony he was able to translate the bible from Latin to German in seclusion. The front piece of Luther’s 1546 edition of the New Testament reveals much about the Protestant Reformation, showing that the bible should be read by everyone.
Jan Hus and John Wycliffe both faced the same issues as Martin Luther, both challenged the church and were both excommunicated because of it.
John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher that taught at Oxford in England. Theologically, his preaching expressed a strong belief in predestination that enabled him to declare an invisible church of the elect, made up of those predestined to be saved, rather than in the visible Catholic Church. He was later dehumanized and killed. Jan Hus was a Czech priest and master at Charles University in Prague. After John Wycliffe, the theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation, Hus is considered the first Church reformer, as he lived before Luther and Calvin. He was also killed for defying the church. Luther was the first real success of challenging the church and it could have been very different if not for the people before
him. The year, 1546, was that of Luther’s death. In the picture, Christ on the cross by the praying Luther and the Elector of Saxony. This symbolizes the two unified in the central Protestant belief, justified by faith. The actual political-religious alliance between the two that was so important for the spread of Lutheranism in Germany and the compatibility of the Church and state according to Lutheranism. It greatly showed the belief of the New Testament.
In more recent times the religious interpretation of the Reformation has been challenged by political historians. If The Reformation never had occurred or taken place then the Church would be very different and not reformed if not for peoples judgment and conflict between the church. Like G. S. Elton said; desire for Church lands, resistance to imperial and papal claims, the ambition to create self-contained and independent states, all played their part in this, but so quite often did a genuine attachment to the teachings of the reformers.
Historians usually agree that the Reformation comprised the general religious transformations in Europe during the sixteenth century. Many corrupt things were happening inside the church, such as Indulgence and miss-using the bible. Luther created the first protestant people, Lutheranism was a more reformed version or Catholicism which changed all of Europe and helped make the lesser class grow.
Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/949/01/
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/C_Transp/C11_Protestantism.html