English Reformation

How the Protestant Reformation Affected Foreign Relations. At a time when the only Christian religion was Catholicism, all of Europe was Catholic. That is until Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation with his ninety-five suggestions on how the church could be reformed. Once Henry VIII decided to divorce Catherine of Aragon and create the Anglican Church, he effectively cut Great Britain off from the rest of Europe. This severing of religious ties with other nations was both beneficial…

The extremely creative writer Mark Noll of Wheaton College (Illinois) on his inspiring survey of the history of Christianity designed for the general reader. Dr. Noll graduated from Wheaton as an English major and from Vanderbilt with his PhD in the History of Christianity in 1975. After four years of Trinity College (IL), Noll joined the Wheaton College in 1979. Author of several other books. Unlike the usual this book is one fact after another church history "turning points" Dr Noll end…

Saxony, Luther translated the Bible into German and continued his output of gospel pamphlets. When German peasants, inspired in part by Luther’s empowering “priesthood of all believers,” revolted in 1524, Luther sided with Germany’s princes. By the Reformations end, Lutheranism had become the state religion throughout much of Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltics. Years after Luther's death his spirit live on in people such as John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli who were responsible for the upkeep and…

felt that individual Christians should only be guided by what they read in the Bible. Wye is regarded as the "Morning star of the Reformation", since he challenges the church, a hundred and fifty years before Martin Luther did. Wye had many followers including country men, politicians and poor people. His followers known as the Lollards grew in numbers in England. The English Kings, Henry IV and Henry V, tried to stop the spread of the Lollard movement through fines, imprisonment and burning.…

faced a transitional reformation in religion, politics, and economics that influenced economical improvements rather then social. Martin Luther was a christian monk who denounced the Roman Catholic…

across Europe began to have problems with the Catholic Church. Educated professors, common people, and even some religious officials were calling for a reform in the church. The people who led the reformation, known as the reformers had four different central ideas that were the basis of the reformation. The first central ideas of the reformers was “How is a person to be saved”. The reformers encouraged the fact that people can become saved by their faith alone and by doing good deeds. The…

Martin Luther is arguably one of the most important reformers in Church history because he was the catalyst to many of the reformations. Luther also has an interestingly dramatic attitude in the way he dealt with life situations. The Catholic Church has been through many ups and downs, but when Luther was called to be a monk the Catholic Church was failing in many ways to be the bride of Christ. When Luther became a monk he began to see the problems with the Catholic Church and wanted to see the…

After the Edict of Nantes concluded the Protestant Reformation in 1598, the Kings lost a substantial amount of their power to the nobles, princes, and peasants. Since the beginning of Luther’s revolutionary movement, he preached for equality, both within the Church and within the social hierarchy of Europe…

on configuring white racial power because it made christianity and slaveholding more comfortable and while teaching the slaves christianity they were also teaching them that white people have control over them. This is an example of a radical reformation because christianity didn’t originally believe that slaveholding was morally right. It was a change that affected the fundamental nature of their…

The American Revolution is inconceivable in the absence of the context of ideas which have constituted Christianity. There are three main events in history that affected it; the reformation, the two revolutions in England, and the flight to America. The first event is the Protestant Reformation. It began in 1517 because Martin Luther, a Catholic priest in Germany, challenged his church’s ideas and practices. Two of Luther’s main beliefs were “liberty of conscience” and “the creator/redeemer…