The Protestant Reformation, also known as the Reformation, was the 16th-century religious, governmental, scholarly and cultural upheaval that disintegrated Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era (Staff, 2009). The Catholic Church begun to dominate local law and practice almost everywhere starting in the late fourteenth century. The Catholic Church held a tight hold on the daily lives of the people invading just about every part of it. Some people of this time would decide to stand up to the church and attempt to change the way it operated and make it release some of its control. These people who spoke out against the church came to be known as Protestants. The Protestants …show more content…
There were many people and attempts made to change the way the church functioned before the Reformation, but they had always been crushed by the inquisition. There were many factors political, religious, and economic, which had been developing for centuries that would make it possible for the Reformation to come about. There were quite a few practices of the church that were in question at this time. Some of these practices included simony, indulgences, excessive papal wealth, and clerical violations of church and biblical rules of behavior (Fide, Scriptura, Solus, Sola, & Soli, 2014). The one that was the biggest concern to the people looking for church reform, was the selling of pardons from the pope to lessen the time a person’s soul would be in purgatory, these pardons were also called …show more content…
The contemporary notion of standard education that, education is for everyone first arose in Europe during the Protestant Reformation. Along with some of the greatest art and literature, the Reformation brought about the greatest industrial developments and wealth ever experienced in history. The Protestant work ethic, which is a concept in theology, sociology, economics and history which emphasizes hard work, frugality and diligence as a constant display of a person 's salvation in the Christian faith, in contrast to the focus upon religious attendance, confession, and ceremonial sacrament in the Catholic tradition (Weber, 1905), helped to bring about great prosperity in Western Europe and North America. This way of perceiving work and living arose mostly through the Protestant Reformers particularly John Calvin. In the area of science, it is possible that there would have never been modern science were it not for the Reformation. All scientific endeavor before that had been controlled by the church. These are of course not all but just some of the most notable results of the Protestant
The Reformation occurred all over Western Europe. It was mostly set in Germany where various parts of corruption in the Church happened. Martin Luther started the process of the Reformation, he was German so he understood how the Catholic Church took advantage and didn't think this was fair. The Catholic Reformation took place between 1450-1650 which was the biggest revolution in Germany, although the understanding of Luther's actions weren't taken notice of until he put the 95 Theses on the Church's door. Luther felt that Bishops and Priests didn't understand the bible correctly. Luther wanted the Reformation to help fix this by helping the uneducated and powerless. Some of the movement of this was
The Protestant Reformation was a period of time (1500-1700) where there became a change in Western Christendom. This reformation was caused by the resentment from the people because the Catholic Church abusing their powers for political and economic advances. In this time the church was selling pardons for sin and indulgences to forgive sins, decrease days spent in purgatory and save the dead from damnation. The reformation was when people became more aware with the back hand dealings with the church and men like Martin Luther and John Calvin created their own churches to what they believed was not corrupt unlike the church. Unfortunately there many consequences as far at the Roman Catholic church attempting to bring people back to the church,
The Counter-Reformation also known as the Catholic Reformation took place in Italy during the 1500’s. The Counter-Reformation was an event that happen within the Roman Catholic which tried to abolish the mistreatment of regulations within the church. The Counter-Reformation was essentially the attempt to reform the Catholic Church ideals, so they wouldn’t lose anymore citizens to the Protestant religion at the time. The Counter-Reformation arose largely due to the effects of the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation took place in the 16th century where there was a religious, intellectual, political, and culture uproar that divided South Europe. The Protestant Reformation was were the citizens started to question the Catholic religion
The protestant reformation of 16th century had both: immediate and long term effects. Thus, we can see that it was a revolution of understanding the essence of religion, and of what God is. The protestant reformation is said to a religious movement. However, it also influenced the economical, political and social life of people. The most global, short term effect of the reformation was the reevaluation of beliefs, and, as a result, the loss of authority of the Holy Roman Empire. The long term effects were: the emergence of new heretical movements, the declining of papacy, thus the reevaluation of people’s view on the church and life values.
During the Renaissance, Catholicism was the main religion of Europe and the church was the main authority. As the rebirth continued, the population started being smarter and finding out information for themselves. Martin Luther, a protestant, spoke out against the Catholic Church for its abuses by pinning up the 95 these to prove his point of sola scriptura and faith alone. Therefore, the Protestant Reformation began in Europe, which made the Catholic Church very powerless and led to the Catholic Reformation. Although Luther had strong points about breaking away from the Catholic Church, the church had mostly a success to bring back Catholicism due to the reform and using Jesuits to spread the Catholic religion around the world.
During the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation spread throughout the continent. Individualism and Protestant reforms expanded into many European countries, creating a sense of increased religious freedom and moving away from the Catholic Church.The heavy corruption of the Catholic Church, from the sale of indulgences, drove people to be more inclined towards Protestant beliefs. Also, the invention of the printing press, leading to improved literacy, brought the Bible and works of Protestant leaders more accessible, and gained respect for education resulted in a number of different interpretations of the Bible. However, this new religious thought ignited a chaotic division among many nations. Emperors from each country wanted to stretch
Having a religion change, many times, takes a toll on those who follow. This would include the hardships of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation. Religious tensions were spreading throughout Europe, starting from the Protestant Reformation. Some of those who followed the Catholic church began to question how much was true and how many lies they were told to believe in. Many important Leaders of the Reformation stated their opinions about that Catholic church. These opinions would then be evaluated in the Catholic Reformation, The Council of Trent. Beliefs would be revised and practices would be evaluated. The core beliefs would still be Catholic, thus still different from a protestant beliefs. This led to officials of states
During the Reformation period, religion became the major conflict of Europe. Protestantism began and caused difficulties for Catholics. Martin Luther was the one to commence the Protestant Reformation with his 95 Theses. This reformation caused a drastic split in many territories including the Holy Roman Empire. Catholics were offended and furious that this new religious movement was ruining them, so they decided to defend what they believed in. The Roman Catholic faith was defended by establishing doctrinal changes in the Church, behaving unfairly and starting wars with those who were not Catholic, and with the help of Catholic women, like St. Teresa of Avila, who demonstrated the significance of their religion.
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The Protestant Reformation occurred during the Sixteenth century questioning the church. There were many things long term and short term that generated the Protestant Reformation. Some long term events that drew a spark are, the church gaining power by forming an alliance with Italian princes for political power. Also, the church abusing its power by selling indulgences and having a tax on the church. People did not like what the church was becoming, so people like Martin Luther and Henry VII tried to cease what was happening in the church. Overtime, people started to rebel because they were poverty-stricken and could not pay the church’s tax. Throughout the middle ages the church was seeking power to grow and spread Christianity. The growth
The Protestant Reformation was one of the greatest schisms ever to happen to the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church as complete dominion over the religious of Europe, and such power corrupted the church. Money and power were the only things that concerned the church’s attention during this time. Indulgences were a way for the church to gain a considerable amount of income by offering whoever paid the ability to bypass purgatory. This greed was soon exposed by written pieces like the Ninety-Five Theses and Lazarillo de Tormes which portrayed the Church’s greed as hypocritical to the teachings that they preach.
The idea that the practices of the church such as indulgences went against the humanist approach led to the break out of reformation. According to Professor Shegan, Martin Luther (1483-1546) one of the reformers did understand that the church held some sort of key for people to go to heaven. However, Luther despised the Catholic Church sacraments most especially the ideal of infant baptism. This is one of the reasons why reformation seemed to be harmful to the Catholic Church as it created a schism. Professor Shegan in lecture 4, also elaborated how Luther despised the teaching of salvation from the catholic church. Luther, said people did not have to work to earn salvation. While the Catholic church, stated that there were a number of things that people had to do to earn salvation. The Catholic leadership blamed the renaissance because it allowed for many reformers to ultimately go against the Church which unified all Europe. Both humanists such Eramsus and reformers were against the the church was selling indulgences for cash. They both agreed that Christ specifically stated in the bible had already forgiven everyone of their sins through
During the 1500’s, there was only one main religion that was practiced and accepted in Europe, Catholicism. Over time, people started to observe and realize how corrupt the Catholic Church really was, people such as Martin Luther. Along with these realizations came the protestant reformation. This reformation, or schism from the Catholic Church, gave birth to new religions in Europe such as Lutheranism. These new protestant religions affected European culture and society in many ways such as changes in women’s social status, bettering the disorder in the Catholic Church, and the political weakening of the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor.
During the sixteenth century, in what is now modern day Germany, people began to challenge the Holy Roman Catholic Church and its practices. The period in time was called the Reformation and over time had spread over Europe. This period was brought on due to the extravagance, immoral happenings of the clergy, and greed of the church.
The Protestant Reformation helped the church leaders reformed the Catholic Church, which caused major religious changes across Europe during the 1500s transforming worship, politics, society, and basic cultural patterns. The Protestant Reformation movement enabled the Counter Reformation for the Roman Catholic’s and greatly influenced many changes, but most importantly the spread of “nearly 21,000 independent churches denominations, falling under 156 main groups”. (Fisher 335) During the Reformation area Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglicans, Protestant and Roman Catholics were the major reforms of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Reformations.