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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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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Cecilia Mishkevich Mrs. Leahy AP Euro Block F 27 October 2014 Henry VIII DBQ Wanting an annulment from Catherine the Great‚ Henry VIII created the Anglican Church through the Act of Supremacy in 1534. This marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in England‚ and Thomas Cromwell‚ Henry VIII’s head of the King’s Council‚ instigated a series of governmental policies including new taxes‚ growth of royal power in the north of England‚ closure of monasteries‚ and elimination of Catholic church
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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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Avoiding Historical Distortion: An Analysis of Davis’s Writing In a country renown for revolution‚ a time of looming reformation‚ and an age of rebirth‚ the story of The Return of Martin Guerre finds its inception as a historical legal study of the day-to-day occurrences of the lives of peasants in sixteenth-century France. Natalie Zemon Davis crafts her account of the famous story from a historical perspective infused with her own psychological inferences‚ legal case studies‚ and factual details
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the decay of the Catholic Church‚ the influential theories of Copernicus and Kepler followed by the idea of Scientism. To finish‚ the essay will discuss some of the consequences brought about by the Scientific Revolution; the Protestant Reformation‚ the Counter Reformation‚ the French Revolution‚ Scientism‚ Feminism and‚ finally‚ the Enlightenment. Firstly‚ the Scientific Revolution was not caused by one or two cataclysmic events‚ but rather a handful of circumstances that had occurred over many
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There was a time during the western culture when the usual and accepted way of doing or thinking about something changed completely. As a matter of fact‚ there were a few men that created this paradigm shift within the Western culture‚ including Luther‚ Columbus‚ Gutenberg‚ and Copernicus. All of these four people had great ideas and way of doing things that changed the western culture; yet‚ I think the one that had a great amount of influence was Martin Luther. Not only was Martin Luther a monk
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century Johannes Gutenberg invented the European model of the press and printed the first book the bible. After this many printing presses were made across Europe and influenced a lot of the culture. The printing press affected the renaissance‚ protestant reformation‚ and the French revolution by aiding in the spread of ideas during each time period. The printing press is one of the main things that fueled the renaissance due to the fact that the renaissance was the spread of knowledge‚ art‚ and architecture
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