English Reformation

One common way to interpret Prospero, the protagonist of William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, is as a God figure. After all, Prospero reigns over the island and controls several characters. Most convincingly for this reading, he acts as the sole judge of the shipwrecked brethren he has not seen in twelve years. On the surface the reading is sound, but what might Shakespeare’s theologian contemporaries think about it, specifically the Protestant Reformers? On the Freedom of a Christian by…

Karlene RadwayHUMN 41751Mr. FeldmanDate: 04-20-16Martin Luther’s 95 ThesesMartin Luther is one of the greatest religious trailblazers that the world has everwitnessed. He is remembered by most as the man that sparked the beginning of the ProtestantReformation by posting his 95 Theses for all to see. Some viewed Luther as a heretic, whileothers perceived him as an activist for religious truth and sovereignty. Martin Luther disagreedwith several elements of the Catholic religious system and he…

World History II Ms. Chinn April 1st, 2016 Protestant Reformation was the period during 1517 -- 1648 that ends the Middle Ages and begins a new era in the history of Western Civilization. It was mainly about the conflicts between the protestant and Catholic Church. Witchcraft is the use of magic powers, especially evil ones, to make things happen. In Europe during the Protestant Reformation, most of the witchcraft was blamed on the female, only few were the male. Belief…

The physical world exists in a state all humans can comprehend, for the physical world can be heard and seen, and smelt and tasted by all beings; therefore, the nontangible aspects of this world--religions, fantasies, stories—must be taught through the palpable world we exist on. Religion, a science of the beings and places that exist in a pious sense, has been a major aspect of the lives of individuals, families, cities and even countries as a whole. The spiritual nature of religion hinders…

William Tyndale and John Calvin were both essential and influential figures in the Protestant Reformation (when Martin Luther took the initiative to break away from the Catholic Church). Calvin was a pastor and a theocratic ruler of Geneva, and Tyndale was simply a scholar who mastered many languages and translated the Bible so that the common people could read it for themselves. They lived their lives in different parts of Europe, but still both supported and impacted the separation from…

followers, he was angered because of the fact that money was being stolen for the believers. The 95 Theses were written by Martin Luther where he criticized the Church and its doctrine. This kindled a new reformation that opened up people’s knowledge about the Bible. The Protestant Reformation was launched and a new religion grew with the principles that Martin Luther established. New…

The Protestant Reformation of the 1600’s was a major turning point in history that shaped our faith and theology. By the 1600’s the Catholic Church had become the wealthiest and most powerful empires in all of Europe. Ironically enough one of the reasons of the reformation was how this Roman Empire raised money to secure is position of power. In addition the Catholic Church owned large parcels of land about one third of Europe. There were many leaders instrumental to this protestant revolution…

Through his Ten Colloquies, Desiderius Erasmus began to develop a way of thinking that Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Calvin, would eventually mimic and adapt. Erasmus lived and wrote in a period of change, causing his writings to be accepted and built on. Arguably, the reformer who benefited the most from Erasmus’s writings is Martin Luther, the founder of Lutheranism. Other Protestant religions are based off of Luther’s original model, meaning that…

Philosophical Society, James M. Kittleson used his talent and scholarly successes as an ardent researcher focused on Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation. For three decades, he was a frontrunner in the field of Reformation studies, to which he gave generously of his time and talent, serving on the editorial boards of Studies in the Reformation and the Lutheran Quarterly. Kittleson wrote “Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career” in 1986, with the primary purpose, “to tell…

a massive change for Christianity at the time as it promoted and due to the printing press publications, made the bible ‘the peoples book in Church, school and house’ (History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation, Philip Schaff, Publisher- Christian Classics Ethereal Library; 1.1 edition, June 11, 2009, pg. 191). As a result of the ubiquity and understanding of the…