95 Thesis And Heliocentric Theory Analysis

The knowledge that people had throughout the Reformation lead to conflict with the church. The Printing press, The 95 Thesis and the Heliocentric theory all had an effect on that because people were getting and gaining knowledge from these things and that lead to more conflict with the church as more people gained that knowledge. So the knowledge and new innovations that create this availability for this information to get around to people.

The printing press was an invention that allowed copies of written work and produced writing faster (spielvogel). This had a big influence on the conflict in the church because it helped spread the knowledge faster and get it out to more people because they didn’t have to write it all down. They could simply, use the printing press and have the information out there faster. Another reason why the printing press may have caused conflict with the church was the fact that someone could write the Bible in vernacular and then people wouldn’t even have to go to church to understand the bible (hayes). So the knowledge of knowing how to use the printing press also caused a conflict. …show more content…
The knowledge of this theory may have caused conflict with the church because they believed that the Pope or the church was the closest thing to God and they believed that they belonged in the center of the universe so they thought that this theory was wrong and that the Geocentric theory was right. The Geocentric theory places the earth in the center of the universe (spielvogel). The Heliocentric theory may make believers of the Geocentric theory think otherwise because it is being proven by science so this may cause the church to lose followers and because of that they would lose