Protestant Reformers

caltivated corruption of doctrines and practices of the church. Protestants wanted to establish their own churches free from the corruption that wasevident in the roman…

During the Protestant there was a variety of important leaders. For example John Calvin and Ulrich Zwingli. John Calvin was one of the chief leaders of the Protestant Reformation. He had a brilliant mind,powerful preaching, many books and large correspondence, and capacity for organization and administration made him a dominant figure of the Reformation. He was especially influential in Switzerland, England, Scotland, and colonial North America. Ulrich Zwingli’s career was centered in…

Before the ecclesiastical reformation, formally known as the Protestant Reformation, before the time of Martin Luther, individuals began to spark the fire of the Protestant Reformation. Namely, John Wycliffe and John Huss, also known as Jan Hus, were predominant pre-reformers of the Protestant Reformation. Through their lifestyle, writings, ideas, John Wycliffe and John Huss triggered the Protestant Reformation. These contributions of Wycliffe and Huss were controversial in their time. The…

The Protestant Reformation is the period when certain reformers changed the way the Roman Catholic Church functioned because they believed that the church was not delivering God's message the right way. The Reformation began during the sixteenth century in the Holy Roman Empire (modern day Germany), from 1517-1648. The important factors that caused the Protestant Reformation include the corruption of the Church, the inventions that led to the beginning of the reformation, and the reformers who…

humanistic method introduced during the Renaissance was the reading of ancient texts and analyzing them to increase knowledge and insight. Writing became a key way to communicate thoughts and opinions to others. Reading and writing affected the Protestant Reformation greatly because it allowed the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin to be able to gain insight on religious topics and express their opinions effectively. Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Christian…

Introduction The history and documentation of the Protestant Reformation was described as a widespread theological revolt in Europe, against the abuses and totalitarian control of the Roman Catholic Church. There were three reformers who were identified in support of the cause. Martin Luther in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and John Calvin in France. These men stood by their beliefs and protested various unbiblical practices of the Catholic Church. The men were trying to get the…

developed the roles they believed the secular authorities should have in religious matters. In the Lutheran Reformation the church was subordinate to the state. The Calvinist reformers placed the church was above the state, the English reformers declared that the state was in charge of the church, and the Catholic reformers believed that the church…

government. While nationalism and anticlerical views helped pushed the government towards Erastian rule, it is the leaders of both Zurich’s small magistrate councils and England’s monarchy who eventually reformed the church, bringing in a new era of protestant theology. Ulrich Zwingli, a major reformation leader in Switzerland, had a…

Christian groups. Due to this schism, religious leaders began reforming Christianity into a separate religion just like that of the Orthodoxias. Moreover, these splinter groups are often all categorized as Protestant because they all developed from the Reformation. Additionally, the two main protestant denominations were Lutheranism and Calvinism. Though these religions share common roots, they differ in beliefs. Although all these dominations differed in beliefs, they all agreed that Papal…

The Protestant Reformation’s impact on Art The Protestant Reformation a response to the corruption and abuse of the Catholic Church had a great impact on art in the 1600s. This changed the political and religious makeup of Europe. Before the Reformation, the arts was closely supervised and sponsored by the Catholic Church or wealthy Monarchs. I will discuss the Reformation and its influence on artwork from Jacopo Tintoretto and Albrecht Durer, two artists from that time. The Protestant…