The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural mayhem that fractured Catholic Europe, changing the Catholic Religion beliefs in Europe in the modern era. The protest of the Catholic Church was sparked by Martin Luther posting his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of his towns church the All Saints Church. The sudden Challenge of the church brought about visions of the Apocalypse on each side of the reformation.
The one characteristic that made the reformation effective was the ability to spread the ideas opposing the current church structure. The largest contribution to this era was the printing press invented “sometimes between 1435 and 1455, In the German city of Mainz by Johannes Gutenberg, discovered a process for casting individual letters by using lead and antimony nearly 300 years after the Chinese alchemist Pi Sheng” …show more content…
The first work to be published was the Forty-Two Line Bible named as such because each column contained forty-two lines. Another form of the bible printed was Martin Luther’s Bible printed in German vernacular as he put it “not word for word but sense for sense.” (566) This changed the way citizens could interpret the Bible as they could now read the Bible themselves without the Catholic Church forcing their own biblical interpretations onto followers. While Luther began his reform in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin began their own in Switzerland. Ulrich was elected to Zurich’s clergy because he openly rejected celibacy with a woman and six children. After his election Ulrich lead the Protestants in a civil war where he was injured and later executed by the Catholics. Luther and Ulrich only differed on one point of reformation which was the ideas of purgatory and transubstantiation could have formed a single Protestant Church but could never overcome their single difference so Ulrich spread his reform to Switzerland.
The one characteristic that made the reformation effective was the ability to spread the ideas opposing the current church structure. The largest contribution to this era was the printing press invented “sometimes between 1435 and 1455, In the German city of Mainz by Johannes Gutenberg, discovered a process for casting individual letters by using lead and antimony nearly 300 years after the Chinese alchemist Pi Sheng” …show more content…
The first work to be published was the Forty-Two Line Bible named as such because each column contained forty-two lines. Another form of the bible printed was Martin Luther’s Bible printed in German vernacular as he put it “not word for word but sense for sense.” (566) This changed the way citizens could interpret the Bible as they could now read the Bible themselves without the Catholic Church forcing their own biblical interpretations onto followers. While Luther began his reform in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin began their own in Switzerland. Ulrich was elected to Zurich’s clergy because he openly rejected celibacy with a woman and six children. After his election Ulrich lead the Protestants in a civil war where he was injured and later executed by the Catholics. Luther and Ulrich only differed on one point of reformation which was the ideas of purgatory and transubstantiation could have formed a single Protestant Church but could never overcome their single difference so Ulrich spread his reform to Switzerland.