- Martin Luther‚ 1483 to 1546‚ and he was from Germany. Protestant reformation would not have happened without him. The protestant reformation began in 1517; this fits in with the Northern Renaissance. This reformation was part of the Northern Renaissance‚ which was a more religiously oriented movement than was the Italian Renaissance. The reformation was also involved with an increase in education and literacy. Education was growing and by 1500s‚ there were more literate people in Europe than there
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Archbishop Martin Luther’s courage and bravery on Halloween in 1517 sparked the protestant reformation and ultimately a hope for the people of Europe to finally have a voice and break from the Catholic church. The courage and bravery that Martin Luther showed in his letter to the Archbishop sparked the protestant reformation and gave the peasants of Europe a hope to break from the Catholic church. The protestant reformation was the people of Europe that were protesting the Roman Catholic church and
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The Protestant Reformation was the schism within Western Christianity initiated by John Wycliffe‚ Jan Hus‚ Martin Luther‚ John Calvin‚ and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses. The efforts of the self-described "reformers"‚ who objected to ("protested") the doctrines‚ rituals‚ leadership‚ and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church‚ led to the creation of new national Protestant churches. The Reformation was precipitated by earlier
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centuries of Christian fundamentals. Luther made critical objections against the church even when faced with the possibility of being burned alive at the stake. He is considered to be the father of the Protestant Reformation‚ a movement that transformed humanity. Prior to the era of Enlightenment‚ Protestants set a significant example that influenced the revolutionary movement. Thinkers of the Enlightenment period developed their motives and views by straying away from superstition. Martin Luther was
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Many historians believe that William Cecil himself wrote the Church Settlement because it was the 1551-2 version dusted down. Parliament was summoned in 1559 to consider a Reformation Bill and to recreate an independent Church of England. The drafted Reformation Bill defined the Communion in terms of Reformed Protestant theology‚ as opposed to the transubstantiation of the Roman Catholic mass‚ included abuse of the Pope in the litany‚[2][3] and ordered that ministers should not wear the surplice
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The Thirty Years’ War consisted of economic‚ political‚ and religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Germany‚ but later drew in most of Europe. There was four phases of the war that were to resolve political issues. The war‚ which lasted from 1618 to 1648‚ was the bloodiest of the Wars of Religion and destructive‚ but showed that states couldn’t be solely ruled by religion and stay organized and balanced. The Treaty of Westphalia ended this war and reaffirmed that the ruler of each
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of Grace was a march by armed demonstrators during the beginning of the Protestant Reformation of England. It started when the head of the Kings council Lord Thomas Cromwell implemented a series of laws that caused the dissolution of monasteries‚ and the confiscation of catholic lands. The goals of the Pilgrimage of Grace was to restore the monasteries‚ reinstate the pope as the head of the church‚ and to get rid of protestant officials in the government. The Kings response was at first to try and
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John Tewkesbury Introduction « John Tewkesbury‚ merchant and martyr » is an excerpt from The Reformation in England by the Swiss pastor and historian of the Reformation Jean Henry Merle d’Aubigné. The book was originally written in French however was appeared in English for the first time in 1853 in The History of the Reformation of the Sixteen Century. H. White Ph.D. translated the book and revised it. The author’s angle seems to have been that John Tewkesbury was a humanist as Tyndale
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) lived during the early beginnings of the Protestant Reformation. With this Protestant Reformation came many new views of the Eucharist. Martin Luther‚ who many people consider to be the launching pad of the Protestant Reformation‚ believed in the idea of consubstantiation. Consubstantiation is the idea that the substances of Jesus’ body and blood are present alongside the substances of bread and wine. Martin Luther disagreed with the Church’s teaching of transubstantiation
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within it‚ many of them taking a religious nature. As the once unquestionable authority of the church became challenged by both critics and affiliates alike‚ England witnessed an almost inevitable reformation. However‚ the impact on the majority was not necessarily beneficial- as Duffy wrote‚ the Reformation bought with it an ‘assault on traditional religion’‚ leaving many men that ‘breathed easier for the accession of a Catholic queen’. It is possible to perceive that England was torn apart by religious
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