Protestant Ascendancy

After Martin Luther took issue in his Ninety-five Theses with Catholic interpretations and traditions that were not explicitly in the bible, the Council of Trent made declarations as well as a few regulations to reaffirm the Catholic faith. The regulations were made in response to the distaste that the public had shown to the Churches' methods of fundraising. As such, the Church made stricter regulations to combat accusations of corruption such as stricter rules on indulgences. They also made…

Tetzel: "Indulgences will save your soul, so you won't suffer in purgatory." Luther: " What do you mean, they will save your soul? All the money collected is just part of a scam, for the people don't even know they're being saved." Tetzel: " The Pope is saying these indulgences will save your soul, are you saying you don't believe in the authority of the Pope?" Luther: " As I have said before, ' the Pope has neither the will nor the power to remit any penalties'. Also, the bible has never said…

The people in Rome started believing in a new God. This faith in this new God was known as Christianity and it spread rapidly throughout the Roman Empire. It caused suffering and problems, but also gave many people a new hope. This faith came to the roman Empire through a new teacher known as Jesus who was born to preach and teach about God. This faith also spread through Judea and Galilee. Christianity affected the rulers of Rome, it went against the rule of Rome saying that you must worship…

forced to labor on the fields of their lords, while being underpaid and undernourished. When learning of Protestant reforms, which “reduced [the] independence of the Church as [the] intermediary between man and God” (Merriman 94), German peasants were inspired to rise up against their lords, in an attempt to end the oppression and enslavement brought upon them by the nobility. Empowered by the Protestant advocation of individual piety, yet pressured by their poverty and low social standings, the…

The process Plato describes in the “Allegory of the Cave” is applicable to Luther and Calvin’s process to obtaining knowledge. In Luther and Calvin’s case, the shadows the prisoners see in the cave, are the Roman Catholic teachings. As they have only been exposed to Roman Catholic teachings, the teachings become their only truth. When the prisoner is exposed directly to the Bible, he will be liberated from knowing only the Roman Catholic teachings, and start to build his own perspective on the…

both sides. In the case of the argument for reform within the Roman Catholic Church, Martin Luther provided a profoundly heretical response for his time. Known as the individual who sparked the ecclesiastical reformation, otherwise known as the Protestant Reformation, Luther was able to clearly state his arguments for eliminating the power that the Spiritual estate seemingly had over the temporal state. Throughout To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Luther portrays the three walls as…

Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, on November 10th. Since he could carry himself, he was always a influence to the surrounding people, he was a great theologian that history recognised, he was also an author, teacher, protester, priest, supporter and an advocate for the Laity. Martin Luther had an immense influence on Christianity and is somewhat responsible for the outcome of the modern day Christianity. His contribution to Christianity was that the division that he started within the…

The 95 theses were just 95 things that Martin Luther didn’t like about the church. Martin became a teacher and a believer after going from town to town one day and lighting struck hit a tree then he believed god saved him so he became a believer. I think he wrote the 95 Theses cause he was tired of the church doing what they want to do an not pleasing god like a church is suppose to do. The 95 Theses were bad things that the church did. The way coach glass explains this it seems like the…

Gregory Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of stories from the medieval times. The purpose of “The Canterbury Tales” is to satirize the corruption within the church during the medieval ages. Chaucer’s intention is to write 124 stories- four told by each of the 31 pilgrims- but only writes 24. In “The Prologue” of “The Canterbury Tale,” the scene is set and each pilgrim is described. The pilgrims are all on a journey to the Shrine at Canterbury. Many of the pilgrims were corrupt,…

The first Great Awakening was a Protestant religious recovery that cleared Protestant Europe and England in the 1740s. A zealous and renewal development, it cleared out a changeless effect on American Protestantism.The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious recovery in the mid nineteenth century in the U.S. The development started around 1790, picked up by 1800 and, after 1820, participation climbed quickly among Baptist and Methodist assemblies whose preachers drove the development.…