Martin Luther (1483-1546) was an known as an Augustinian monk, associated with L.F.A or Lay Faith Affiliated with Order. Augustinian, or Austin, friars are a mendicant order.According to Britannica, A mendicant order includes “Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians (Augustinian Hermits), Carmelites, Trinitarians, Mercedarians, Servites, Minims, Hospitallers of St. John of God, and the Teutonic order”(Britannica) affiliated with Roman Catholicism. As consecrated religious, they were to pray the Liturgy of the Hours throughout the day.Luther was also a University Lecturer in Wittenberg.He was one of the most well-known activists of the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s Rebellious ways were the cause of the Protestant Reformation and a catalyst
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But this dominance in Europe would not last throughout the next one hundred years. This was a time period before the Protestant Reformation begun by professor and munk: Martin Luther, that was to challenge the Catholic Church not only in its systematic practices, hierarchy, and Biblical interpretation, but most importantly, challenge its widespread followers and believers in Europe. Historian Hans Hillerbrand, in his book The Protestant Reformation, comments that by the end of the sixteenth century "one fact was beyond dispute: Western Christendom was tragically divided...into no less than five religious factions” .This transformation came to be the popular topic of much debate and historical perspective or interpretation. It is argued here that the rapid spread of the apostasy towards the Catholic Church known as Protestantism can be attributed to four main tenets: pre-existing dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church, the approving and all incorporation of the ideologies and methodologies of the Protestant Reformation, effective propaganda used by Luther and other reformers, and powerful minorities that developed from the Reformation that led many nations away from the Catholic Church and towards other
But this dominance in Europe would not last throughout the next one hundred years. This was a time period before the Protestant Reformation begun by professor and munk: Martin Luther, that was to challenge the Catholic Church not only in its systematic practices, hierarchy, and Biblical interpretation, but most importantly, challenge its widespread followers and believers in Europe. Historian Hans Hillerbrand, in his book The Protestant Reformation, comments that by the end of the sixteenth century "one fact was beyond dispute: Western Christendom was tragically divided...into no less than five religious factions” .This transformation came to be the popular topic of much debate and historical perspective or interpretation. It is argued here that the rapid spread of the apostasy towards the Catholic Church known as Protestantism can be attributed to four main tenets: pre-existing dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church, the approving and all incorporation of the ideologies and methodologies of the Protestant Reformation, effective propaganda used by Luther and other reformers, and powerful minorities that developed from the Reformation that led many nations away from the Catholic Church and towards other