Protestant Reformers

Martin Luther is a reformer and also a priest and professor of theology who challenged the Roman Catholic Church and launched the Reformation. Martin Luther along with his followers disagreed with the practice found within the Roman Catholic Church; therefore, sparked a revolution in Catholic Europe. Martin Luther and his followers set out to distinguish the religious beliefs and practice between the Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholicism. As a result the Roman Catholicism…

The Protestant Reformation was the 16th century schism from the Catholic Church in Europe sparked by early Protestant Reformers like Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli. The political and social consequences of the Protestant Reformation during the first half of the 16th century benefitted and harmed Europe. Monarchial power expanded and rose throughout all of Europe while the church did just the opposite. Boys, girls, men and women each took on new roles in their social lives and political lives…

The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century transformed Christianity forever. Provoked for change by the exploitation and abuses they saw in the Roman Catholic Church, leaders and pastors such as Martin Luther and John Calvin organized an effort that would soon alter Christianity and ultimately lead to the emergence of the Protestant denominations that exist today. These leaders believed that the church had drifted away from the crucial original teachings of Christianity, most importantly…

Protestant Reformation occurred during conflict between nation-states in Europe •First in imperial cities of Germany and Switzerland •Deep social and political divisions •Certain groups favored the reformation - like printers who were literate POPULAR RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND CRITICISM OF THE CHURCH •The reformation could not have happened without the numerous conflicts that had risen within the church during the Renaissance. •Diet of Worms (Germany) presented the emperor with 102 oppressive…

Religion was very important to the Europeans and the Roman Catholic church was the main religion for awhile till people began to want to question and determine their own understanding lead a division between Roman Catholic and Protestant. Because of Reformation from Henry VIII, Martin Luther’s 95 thesis, and John Calvin doctrines during the 15th and 16th century people in what is known as the Great Migration decided to venture into america that they could freely express their religion and…

you and probably want you dead, sadly that’s the truth. The good thing that happened at the end of all of this is that he established a religious government and because if that, he is known greatly for his figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation, and without his spiritual beliefs and the way he thought and the way he reigned, only God knows what would become of…

The counter-reformation was by the catholic church to strengthen the church and keep catholics from converting to protestantism. It was initiated in response to the protestant reformation in the 1500’s. Pope Paul III called the council of trent in 1545 to guide the counter-reform movement. This counter-reform aimed to end abuse in the churches, also created the list of banned books. The Jesuits were a religious order led by Ignatius Loyola that emphasized strict moral and spiritual life and they…

were the main issues which had caused a slow deterioration of the standing of the church through the years. The degrading actions of the religious institutions were pointed out by reformers before Luther, but the public did not catch on to the movement. Luther simply expressed and furthered the ideas of many reformers and included the complaints of the public in his Ninety-Five Theses. One of the first critics to identify the faults of the church was John Wycliffe. An English scholar, Wycliffe,…

different during the Nazi regime in Germany and this is discussed in detail in Demonizing the Jews Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany by Christopher J. Probst a visiting assistant professor of modern European history at Saint Louis University. The author has written an analysis that provides insight into the how German Protestants used the anti-Jewish writings of Protestant reformer Martin Luther within the Third Reich. The author draws heavily from Gavin Langmuir when it comes to…

Shakespeare uses Hamlet’s growing skepticism regarding both Protestant and Catholic religious beliefs to represent those of the average Elizabethan while also highlighting the importance of purgatory in Reformation era debates. Edward T. Oakes describes Hamlet as a man “torn in conviction between his Catholic upbringing and Lutheran education”…