The greater effect on European Culture was the writings of Martin Luther. Luther was able to create a revolution and upset the system that had been in place since the official religion of the Roman Empire. Luther took on some of the Catholic Church’s doctrine, practices and created the great rift that still exists between the Christian populations of the world today. Luther’s writings sparked Protestantism as we know it today and this led to the eventual creation of the Anglican Church in England as well as the Calvinist tradition in the Swiss Cantons.
Luther’s writings got him Ex-communicated in 1521, (this will be the starting point for the 30 years of analysis) before that point he was walking the fine line between heresy and intellectual discussion. His religious reforms included such ideas as “Solo Fides” (salvation by faith alone, not acts) “Solo Scriptura” (the bible is the ultimate authority, not the pope) and the “priesthood of all believers”, which entailed Luther vouching for …show more content…
This divided north and south central Europe (namely the areas controlled by the Holy Roman Empire, who was till this point a Catholic Empire). Not only the HRE was effected though, as we see protestant movements in England, not initially the purpose of the formation of the Anglican Church, but after the death of Henry VIII, the Anglican prayer book was left intentionally vague for inclusion of protestant ideals. Switzerland had another idea entirely, not the entire country but Geneva in particular was open to Lutheran ideals. It became yet another state that developed its own ideas out of Luther’s writings, namely under Calvin, another reformer. Calvin went a bit further from Catholicism, when he wrote his own Institutes of the Christian Religion
Luther’s writings got him Ex-communicated in 1521, (this will be the starting point for the 30 years of analysis) before that point he was walking the fine line between heresy and intellectual discussion. His religious reforms included such ideas as “Solo Fides” (salvation by faith alone, not acts) “Solo Scriptura” (the bible is the ultimate authority, not the pope) and the “priesthood of all believers”, which entailed Luther vouching for …show more content…
This divided north and south central Europe (namely the areas controlled by the Holy Roman Empire, who was till this point a Catholic Empire). Not only the HRE was effected though, as we see protestant movements in England, not initially the purpose of the formation of the Anglican Church, but after the death of Henry VIII, the Anglican prayer book was left intentionally vague for inclusion of protestant ideals. Switzerland had another idea entirely, not the entire country but Geneva in particular was open to Lutheran ideals. It became yet another state that developed its own ideas out of Luther’s writings, namely under Calvin, another reformer. Calvin went a bit further from Catholicism, when he wrote his own Institutes of the Christian Religion