Compare And Contrast The Reformation Scientific Revolution And The Enlightenment

The Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment are all intertwined. The Reformation was about religion, the Scientific Revolution was about proving that the Sun was the center of the Universe, and the Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement. The Reformation movement in the fifteen-hundreds changed the way Europeans looked at themselves. The Protestant Reformation was an important development that shifted the way marriage and family life was viewed. “Married life was disparaged by the Catholic Church, which required celibacy of its priests, praised chastity and virginity, …, and taught that even for married couples the sole purpose of sex was to produce children” (Andrea, 24). Martin Luther rejected the concept of celibacy and married Katharina von Bora in 1525. They had six children together. Martin Luther helped others to view marriage as a heavenly blessing (Andrea). The Reformation movement in the fifteen-hundreds changed the way Europeans looked at their world. They began to question if the church had the right motives in mind. This led to European’s turning to Protestant …show more content…
The Enlightenment began to question the traditions of society. It was a new logical way of looking at the world, people, and things that happened. It focused on cause and effect. The philosophes of the time shared the Enlightenment’s faith in the supremacy of human reason, believing that people, through the use of their reason could find answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. The philosophes helped the world to imagine what freedom looked like. A philosopher by the name of Montesquieu, “argued for a separation of powers, with political power divided among different classes and legal estates holding unequal rights and privileges” (McKay, 563). His idea on the separation of powers influenced the constitution of France in