Lutheranism

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…

During the Renaissance period, there were women and the Church. After a while women were getting more involved in the Church and more roles in religion, but women could not join the secular clergy. There was a time the citizens didn’t agree with the church and wanted a change within the Church. Queen Elizabeth played a major part in religion because of her beliefs and views. During the Renaissance period, religion and the Roman Catholic Church evolved due to Queen Elizabeth’s views, citizens…

There is 3 different types of reformations that happened. There is the Protestant, Counter, and English Reformations. We are going to find out the differences and what happened in each one of these reformations. Martin Luther King started the protestant reformation. The protestant reformation is where Luther got really mad at the church and put the ninety-five thesis on the church door. The reason why he nailed the ninety-five thesis to the church door was because he got mad at the church and…

Martin Luther was one of the most influential people in history. He believed that salvation could be achieved only through God’s mercy. Luther changed Christianity when he started the Protestant Reformation against the Catholic Church in the 16th century. He questioned some of the basic techniques of the Catholic Church causing him to want a change, he wanted to make a difference. Followers of Luther were known as Protestants. There were many important events in his life that has shaped history…

This paper will briefly highlight the causes and the resulting consequences of the disorder and violence that involved a large portion of Europe in the first half of the 17th century known as the Thirty Years’ War. Religious conflict was nothing new. However, developing new concepts like absolutism and the ‘nation state’ played key components in the causation and continuation of this sustained conflict. Changes in the science of warfare was also a contributing factor. In the end there was a new…

individual is practicing free inquiry by setting off to discover their own truth. These individuals who broke away from Catholicism to observe faith in God through other means created their own subsections of religion in their own faiths such as Lutheranism and Presbyterian. Which is exactly like that of Planet of the Apes in which one man leaves with a few to create a brand new civilization, providing evidence that there needs to be a balance between dogmatism and free inquiry in order to have…

in hiding he translated the New Testament into the German language giving the common people to read and interpret it on their own. May of 1522 he avoided capture and went back to Wittenberg Castle Church where he began to organize a new church: Lutheranism. When he was older he married Katharina von Bora(a former nun who had abandoned the covenant due to Luther's writings) and had five children; Johannes, Magdlene, Martin, Paul and Margarete. From 1533 to his death in 1546 he served as the dean…

away current idea. The radical reformers just caused more problems for the peasants due to their living and how they work. Many peasants were killed which led the Reformation to lose a lot of views. Martin Luther created a new religion he called Lutheranism and many people converted from…

the conflict actually started much earlier than 1618. Signed in 1555 the peace of Augsburg gave religious freedom to the princes of the Holy Roman Empire to choose whether to follow the old Christian way of Catholicism or the new protestant way, Lutheranism. This treaty left out Calvinism another protestant sect. flash forward 35 years to the 1590’s where militant Catholic Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand II began to…

There are many influential leaders in Europe throughout the Transformation Period. The Transformation Period took place during the 1300’s through the 1600’s and consisted of four different periods including The Renaissance, which was a time for rebirth in Europe for new perspectives and ideas, culture and art, The Reformation, which was a time when people realized the church was not dominant over everything you believed and thought, The Scientific Revolution, which was a time when philosophers…