Martin Luther Reform Essay

It was a fact that Martin Luther’s reform movements calling for religious and social reform gain many followers, but one thing he failed to realize, was the important impact his reformation would cause for the future of Christendom. Although Luther started the Reformation, he did not intend to split the church or create dissent, he really just wanted to correct a few things that he thought were wrong. However, little did Luther know, he would become the needed trigger that would ignite the Protestant Reformation that many Christens held within them. Luther was the only one brave enough to start the Protestant Reformation, and allowed for others like him to call for their own reformation on the Catholic Church. People like John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and Johannes Bugenhagen, who took

There was also a massive amount contention among the reformers, for example, Erasmus challenged Luther on the question of “free will” in 1524, Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt in Wittenberg abolished Mass, and took down images in 1522, and Zwickau Prophets demanded “direct action” base on inspiration from the Holy Spirit in 1522-23. One of the biggest disagreements between the reformers was the nature of Sacrament and the Covenants of God. In Zwingli’s Sixty-Seven Articles, he split from Luther’s doctrine of communion and emphasized reform of life as well as doctrine. He also differ in Luther on the role of secular government in ecclesiastical affairs. As Luther wanted a total separation of spiritual from secular, Zwlingli argued that secular law to embody the law of God. Similar to Luther as the lead reformer in Germany, Zwingli led the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland and with it, his own version of church reform which gain popularity amongst Swiss