The European Movement: The Protestant Reformation Movement

The Protestant Reformation was a main 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. This began with a monk by the name of Martin Luther. Impressive political rulers who wanted to extend their power and control at the expense of the Church supplemented its religious aspects. Throughout reading this paper the reader will understand some of the good about the reformation and some of the bad things with the protestant reformation. Most of these ideas can from Martin Luther him self and also from readings that he had read throughout this time, along with books he read and some of his followers.
Before the protestant reformation there was only one church, which was called the universal church. Back in this time the church was ran by the pope. This was in roman that’s why the religion was named Roman Catholic. Also at this time there was less religions and no one had trouble trying to figure out what religion they wanted to be. Martin Luther started the protestant reformation by posting his 95 theses on the front door of the castle church. This started commotions with the Catholic Church because inside of his theses he stated things about the church that he did not approve of. People started to read lathers theses and agreeing to what he was saying. With that being said Luther was …show more content…
Also these new beliefs and churches were not backed up by one of the most important persons being the pope. Another thing is how could someone believe in your religion if the pope looked at it as wrong being. People back in this time looked at the people as a walking God, which allows one to understand how important he is and also was one of the persons who is said to be the one who makes he decision if you go to heaven or