Martin Luther And The Protestant Reformation

Throughout human history, religious reform has played a huge role in the success and failures of religions. We today take this for granted when we think of our religion because probably it occurred before we were even born. Christianity for example has gone through many changes resulting in the numerous splits that have occurred since its existence. During the Humanist period of the Renaissance, we started to see the possibility of a major split that would change the faith forever. We now know this split as the Protestant Reformation. During this period, there were many who believed that the Catholics were heading in the wrong direction and that something needed to be done. These reforms felt that if they used ideas from the past that worked,

A man by the name of Martin Luther felt that there was a possibility to fix this once great religion. Following a near death experience, Luther converted his daily life to go to become a studying minister. He believed that the moral codes he learned as a minister are the ones you should live your life with. As a man of god, he taught the fact that one should repent to God towards their sins but during this era many in the church were okay with the idea of a payoff. Sinners would pay the church indulgences (or credits against their account) to remove these sins or to better yet, make the church richer. Luther was angered by the idea of the church getting rich off of repenting sins that he needed to take swift action. He constructed a manuscript known as the 95-Theses, which challenged the Clergy and Catholic Church on the corruptness of the church and ways that they could change to make a positive change. Luther Theses were challenged by the Leipzig Debate and he was deemed an outlaw by the Pope and was captured. He was secretly let go to spread his faith by Albrecht and we now have the Religion of Lutheran. Lutheran did have its heyday in Europe and the New World but as far as a religion competing against the Catholics today, they are

The issues with the church started much earlier in the Northern Renaissance when the church started moving away from its traditional form. Humanists in the Northern Renaissance heavily relied on ethics and morality so once they saw the Catholic Church and its corruption, they had to criticize it. However it wasn’t in any intension for the Humanists to cause a revolution or split of the Catholic faith but as history shows, that’s what happen. You could easily say that the Northern Renaissance was a stepping stone for the Protestant Reformation. Once the word got out to enough people about reforming the religion, no one would resist except for the ones fighting for the Catholics. Without the spread of Humanism, you could argue the fact that the Reformation would never have occurred. I believe this. The main idea and reason behind ethics and morality it to take down corrupt bodies. The Catholic Church was a ticking time bomb when the humanist came