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    Martin Luther and Olrich Zwingli wrote documents that showed they were displeased on the way the Catholic Church was operating. Their complaints differed from each other but had some similarities. Martin Luther wrote the “Ninety-Five Theses” and Olrich Zwingli wrote the “Sixty-Seven Articles.” They had a meeting at Marburg and could not agree on the same beliefs‚ so the Protestant revolution did not have a united front. Luther had many criticisms of the Catholic Church. He made a list of complaints

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    During the 1400s and the 1500s many people tried to expose the church’s corruption and to make reforms. These reformers were usually persecuted by church officials and kings‚ some were even burned at the stake. One such reformer who both the pope and emperor Charles V tried to silence was Martin Luther In 1521‚ Martin Luther was summoned by emperor Charles V to the Diet of the Worms to face train for his attacks on the church. Before the Diet of the Worms‚ Luther lets it be known that he did

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    During the early 1500’s‚ Martian Luther (1483-1546) became a pivotal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Although a brilliant scholar and Augustinian monk‚ Luther struggled to find peace with God viewing Him “as a wrathful judge who expected sinners to earn their own righteousness” (Elwell‚ 1984‚ p. 665). After realizing the truth of Ephesians 2:8‚ Luther would come to change his view of God‚ rediscovering the grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Luther’s views not only contributed to the Protestant

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    “God tolerates even our Stammering and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us-as indeed‚ without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.”-John Calvin.John Calvin was a very influental theologin because he knew a lot about theology.John was indeed a very important person in history not only because he was a theologian but because he was Martin Luther’s successor. John Calvin was born on July 10‚ 1509 in the city of Noyon‚ France. “He was the second son of Gérard Cauvin

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    Maple Chen Summary: Johann Tetzel’s “The Sale of Indulgences” “The Sale of Indulgences” contains an excerpt from the sermons of a German friar‚ Johann Tetzel‚ in 1515. During and before the 16th century‚ the Catholic Church sold indulgences‚ which ensured Christians a direct passage to heaven after death‚ skipping purgatory in exchange for money or gifts. In “The Sale of Indulgences‚” Tetzel expands on this need to purchase indulgences‚ especially putting emphasis on the pain of purgatory. It

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    During the 16th and 17th century‚ there were two major monarchs who ruled England‚ and France. These two leaders were Elizabeth I‚ and King Louis XIV. These two historical leaders were known for their ruling and how they dealt with problems. Louis XIV ruled more with an iron fist‚ While Elizabeth I was wiser and had more thought in how she did things. Although Louis XIV and Elizabeth I Both share the effect of being an influence to and for their country‚ they are more dissimilar in the way they rule

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    Did you know that the play Tartuffe was written to mock the hypocrisy of the church during the mid-1600? Tartuffe was scandalous back in the day‚ and there’s a reason why. It exposes the idea of religious hypocrisy. This issue was hard to tackle back then. For this‚ the play was censored by King Louis XIV‚ probably due to the influence of the archbishop of Paris‚ Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe‚ who was the King’s confessor and had been his tutor. Tartuffe‚ written by the French play

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    This essay will assess to what degree the invention of the printing press has contributed to the spread of the ideas and ultimately the success of the Reformation in England and Scotland during the Tudor period. The impact of print has been studied by several historians and conclude that the Reformation was ‘virtually unimaginable without the invention of the printing press’. The movable type printing press invented circa 1450 by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz. In 1517 Martin Luther’s nailed his Ninety-Five

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    The 16th and 17th centuries were a time of religious upheaval and the different European countries dealt with the disturbances in various ways. The Spainish approach was to crush any dissenting views through the Spanish Inquistion and enforce conformity to the Catholic faith. England embraced the Protestant Revolution with its split with the Catholic Church and fostered many Protestant sects. The uniformity of religion in Spain led to a zealous Catholic population who were driven to convert the natives

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    The Inquisition in Cartagena‚ Colombia‚ lasted from 1610 until (with sporadic interruptions) 1821. Some of the instruments used to extract confessions from heretics are on display at the Palace of the Inquisition. I wasn’t going to show these‚ as they’re pretty grim‚ and even grimmer if you realize how they were used. Catholics‚ this used to be the business of your church‚ and not just in Europe. How much pain would have been spared had there not been faith? The heretic’s fork: The heretic’s fork

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