The influence of Luther led to a change on the European landscape. The Roman Catholic Church no longer had influence over the entirety of Europe, allowing new movements influenced by the reformation to emerge. The most influential of these movements were the Calvinism, Anglicanism and militant reformed Catholicism. During the period of the reformation, war and rebellion were commonplace in Europe. Of the aforementioned movements, Calvinism most encouraged war and rebellion. Like Lutheranism, Austine heavily influenced Calvinism. Calvinist Philip Mornay, altered Augustinian just war theory to encourage rebellion against the French monarch. Mornay 's argument stemmed from his brief articulation of Augustine’s theory: "although the church be not increased by arms, notwithstanding it may be justly preserved by the means of arms", leading Mornay to conclude:
"those that die in so holy a war are no less the Martyrs of Jesus Christ than their brethren who were put to death for religion; nay, they who die in that war seem to have this disadvantage, that with a free will and knowing sufficiently hazzard, into which they cast themselves,notwithstanding, do courageously expose their lives to death and danger, whereas the others do only not refuse death, …show more content…
Out of all the later reformation groups, Martin Luther would have viewed Anglicanism the most favorably. One factor that Luther would appreciate within Anglicanism is its ' tolerance. Anglicanism strived to be an intermediate option between two extremes and to reform slowly. Likewise, Luther wanted to reform at a pace acceptable to the people, and wanted to find compromise with the Catholic Church. Luther and the Anglicans also viewed most doctrine outside of Salvation as nonessential. They also agreed on justification by faith alone and emphasised the authority of the scriptures (Hillerbrand p. 285, Cranmer,
"those that die in so holy a war are no less the Martyrs of Jesus Christ than their brethren who were put to death for religion; nay, they who die in that war seem to have this disadvantage, that with a free will and knowing sufficiently hazzard, into which they cast themselves,notwithstanding, do courageously expose their lives to death and danger, whereas the others do only not refuse death, …show more content…
Out of all the later reformation groups, Martin Luther would have viewed Anglicanism the most favorably. One factor that Luther would appreciate within Anglicanism is its ' tolerance. Anglicanism strived to be an intermediate option between two extremes and to reform slowly. Likewise, Luther wanted to reform at a pace acceptable to the people, and wanted to find compromise with the Catholic Church. Luther and the Anglicans also viewed most doctrine outside of Salvation as nonessential. They also agreed on justification by faith alone and emphasised the authority of the scriptures (Hillerbrand p. 285, Cranmer,