The Protestant Reformation may be described as a time of “reclamation.” Reformers set out to bring doctrine and practice into closer alignment with the New Testament. Following the Reformation‚ a period of rationalism set in. Human reason became the final court of appeal. What started as a response to a cry for reclamation of revealed scripture now heard voices that denied the existence of revelation. Although this Age of Reason is bracketed from 1648 to 1789‚ its effect has continued to the present
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Introduction The Reformation was a revolt against the values and practices of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe throughout the early sixteenth century. The Reformation started in the north of Germany but quickly spread throughout Western Europe which was officially under the control of the Christian Church at the time. The Reformation occurred in response to the corruption and practical abuses of the Catholic Church at the time. Many people were influential in the revolt including Martin Luther
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Martin Luther and the Reformation A German Augustinian friar‚ Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Luther grew up the son of a miner‚ but he did not maintain that lifestyle for himself. He lived in a period that had a widespread desire for reformation of the Christian church and a yearning for salvation. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben in Saxony. Since his father was a miner‚ it was a great distress on him to send Martin to school and then to the University
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first example of how our culture has developed would be the printing press. Printing had been invented in the early fifteenth century‚ and once invented‚ printing spread around the world. Printing started in the West‚ but spread to Europe quickly. With the printing press‚ the study of learning and technology was able to grow exponentially. It is said that the Protestant Reformation benefited much from the printing press. It was interesting for me to learn of the printing presses for several reasons. I
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A reformation is religious ideas and activities in Europe that were an attempt to change and improve the Catholic Church and resulted in the Protestant Churches being established. The English Reformation happened during the 16th century England under the reign of Henry the VIII. England was empowered by Rome‚ and Henry acted in this state of manner partly by political motives. Once When Henry the VIII broke away from the Catholic Church in Rome he closed a rough number of 560 Monasteries‚ to help
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Major Causes and Effects of the Protestant Reformation There were several causes of the Protestant Reformation that effected society‚ politics‚ and religion in Europe during the 16th century. In my opinion‚ the immediate cause that started the reformation was Martin Luther’s act of posting the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral in the Roman Empire. Luther was unhappy with the Catholic Church‚ and posted the Theses due to the sale of indulgences that was going on to raise money for
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The Reformation According to the Roman Catholic Church‚ salvation was only possible to Christians who followed the pope and that those who did not accept the Church nor accept the pope as the representative on earth of God‚ would be damned for all eternity (Arnold). This would be the churches philosophy for a long period of time‚ as the church grew and grew‚ gaining political and economic power over every aspect of the community. This was changed by a movement called The Reformation .This movement
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conquering the world’s oceans—opening direct contact and commerce with Africa and Asia and rediscovering America. Before the end of the fourteenth century‚ western Europeans had relied on the mariners and merchants of the Muslim world for their access to the trade and technology of the rest of the known world‚ Africa and Asia. But during the fifteenth century‚ western Europeans mastered the world’s oceans. Thus‚ they threw off their dependence on Muslim middlemen for access to the learning and resources
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intellectual movements of the Enlightenment and the Reformation changed society through its numerous worldviews‚ including defying the traditions of the pre-established thoughts of the past. These adjustments in worldview impacted society forever through its perspective on religion‚ humanism and overall intellectual freedom. The Protestant Reformation was the sixteenth century religious‚ political‚ intellectual and cultural movement that spread across Catholic Europe‚ setting in place the structures and
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versus the Reformation "I feel‚ sometimes‚ as the Renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn"Polykarp Kusch. Two very critical periods in the history of western civilization involved the eras of the Renaissance and the Reformation. The renaissance evolved mainly in direct result to the medieval times where the people where obedient to authority. The reformation took place
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