Protestant Ascendancy

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…

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 people today…

Recognized by esteemed awards, counting a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American 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…

Explain (cause and effect) the impact of Martin Luther on Christianity. Martin Luther was a significant figure in history in which has made a profound impact on the Christian denomination. Through Luther’s ‘very different’ spiritual mindset, he has completely changed the way Christianity views the world; translating the bible in the vernacular of the German people and also eradicating the isolation existent between priests and the public. Luther’s achievement on publishing as well as…

“John Calvin is generally regarded as the leading Protestant reformer of the sixteenth century after Martin Luther. Born in 1509 and raised in France, the product of a humanist education, he became a Protestant in the 1520s and was exiled from Paris. Calvin then went to Switzerland, eventually settling in Geneva, where he became the leader of the Protestant movement there. After being driven out of the city in 1538 because of discontent with the rigor…

theologians met in Trent to discuss how to best combat Protestantism. The largest argument between these church leaders consisted of whether to compromise their doctrines to encourage the return of Protestants to the Church, or to reiterate traditional teachings in strong opposition to the Protestants. The latter group’s position won out, and the Council of Trent created a strict body of doctrine for Catholics that unified Christendom and reaffirmed traditional…

popular reformation. England is the exception to this trend as the reformation was spread from the monarch down to the masses. As such it was a much slower process and Elizabeth largely waited for the clergy to be replaced with a new generation of Protestant preachers . However, Marshall recognizes that this was not a typical path for the spread of the…

of the Modern Era (1500 - present), directly leading to the Renaissance (1300 – 1600), Protestant Reformation (1517 – 1800s), and the Age of Discovery (1450 – 1650 CE). The Crusades contributed to the catalyst for the Renaissance through the return of classical knowledge and international trade to Europe. The Crusades failure was a catalyst of the fracturing of the Roman Catholic Church, leading to the Protestant Reformation. The Crusades were a catalyst for the Age of Discovery through the…

The church was in the center of people 's lives. The men and women listened to its teachings and everything they had to say. The church slowly became corrupt because the leaders were trying to maintain a prideful facade. Leaders of the church decided to excommunicate and even execute people who challenged the church 's teachings. Jan Huss was one of these men that did not accept the church 's teachings. He was a Czech priest that was highly influenced by John Wycliffe. He was burned in 1415…

After this, the Pope called Luther a wild boar and in turn Luther called him an Anti-Christ. Luther set out to further break away from the Church with his Protestant Reformation, and he also wanted the individual to have to ability to practice their religion without the Church. Thus, in 1522 Luther translated the New Testament from Latin in German. With these works so readily available for the average person…