Reformation History
The history of The Reformation started when Western European Catholics opposed what they believed to be false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice within the Catholic Church. The movement’s famous leaders include Martin Luther and John Calvin.
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PiusXThe first part of the answer to this question is all related to the politics of the court of Henry VIII. Henry was second in line...
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Calvin tried to avoid what he considered two major errors. First, that the wine and bread were supernaturally turned into the...
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martin Luther and Henry the eighth
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Did Henry's ',break,' with Rome have support from the English people? Or was a case that Rome was a far away place. There might...
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indulgences to rebuild Saint Peter's Basilica
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Reformers were most upset by three main issues: The village priests married and had families, which was against Church rulings....
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Protestants were the people who during the European Reformation protested against the Roman Catholic Church.
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His 95 thesis (problems with the church). And just so you know, the church door was like a bulletin, so he wasn't being...
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class division
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Too much power within the Catholic Church.
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Luther hung his 95 thesis on the door of the castle church, on October 31st 1517
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The main conflict was between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire (mostly present-day Germany). The French...
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most of the countries in Europe fought in the thirty year war.
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By the end of the 15th century, the Church of Rome, with parishes, monasteries, and convents throughout its domain, had become...
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It is my understanding that one loosely defined tenet of Calvinism is that persons cannot be freed from sin, and will continue to...
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The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth) was a cultural movement that occurred roughly from the 14th to the...
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King Henry VIII was having problems finding a wife who would provide him with a male child to whom he could leave his kingdom...
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they felt that they where useless
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This is a vast topic. Essentially, the Reformation began as an attempt to **reform** the Catholic church, and when the latter...
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Roman Catholic AnswerProbably a more reasonable question would be "who didn't protest practices of the Catholic Church". In over...
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Disciples of Calvin - variously known as Huguenots, Presbyterians, Puritans or Calvinists - agitate for their own kind of reform...
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John Calvin, 1509-1564Born about 26 years after Luther, Calvin was one of the key reformers of the 1500s. His main centre of...
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Probably because Calvin fundamentally believed in opening the scriptures to all. Also possibly because it might have been his...
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Henry VIII was a Roman Catholic, under the authority of the Pope in Rome. The Catholic Church did not recognize divorce, and...
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His 95 thesis statements
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it infulenced the people to stand up for what they believed in and put people of power into the government rather than the...
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They protected reformers.
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AnswerThis question makes the assumption that there was no reform. Reform throughout the history of Christianity has been key in...
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You want all 95 of them? In general, Martin Luther was against the supposition that the Pope could absolve sin by means other...
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it criticized the selling of indulgence
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Portugal, Spain, and Italy remained Catholic.
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It is the area up by the alter that often includes where the church musical group sings. With a slightly different spelling, it...
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First Answer Right off the top let's make it clear that there wasn't a "France" in the middle ages. France like the rest of...
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Martin Luther Supposedly nailed his 95 thesis to the Church door in Wittenberg Germany
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It ended during Henry's eighth reign. When it ended was a matter of opinion some American Scholars wonder if 1688 would be a...
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No. In fact, the Catholic Church is very much in favor of adoption, and against abortion. The Fifth Commandment very clearly...
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When our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, said "Repent", He called for the entire life of believers to be one of repentance. The...
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The breakaway religions from the Catholic Church (see Martin Luther). Answer Protestantism refers to a branch of Christianity...
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He saw the presently established Christian Church of his time as corrupt, deviating towards secular matters rather than religious.
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The waldenses are the people who preaches secretly to other people and they hide in caves.
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calvin believed in predestination- the idea that a soul was destined from birth to go to heaven or hell he also believed in a...
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Martin Luther is considered the founder or leader of the Protestant Reformation, which changed the religious and political map of...
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The downfall of the stranglehold that the church gad over what was considered the truth and what was from then on open to be...
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He died from heart failure
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Augustinians
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the biggest thing british people were focused on was the colonization of the new world.
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Calvinism is a system of Christian belief developed by the reformer John Calvin. At it's simplest, it consists of five points...
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Holiness means to be set apart. God says in the Bible that he is a holy God. Therefore, he is like no other because there are no...
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Luther to the faith to the people, being against the bloated powerhouse that was then the church, telling everyone what, when,...
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Schism In the Great Schism of 1054, the Catholic Orthodox Church (as it is now known among scholars) split into two parts, each...
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Henry of Bourbon (already king of Navarre), who then became Henry IV.
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This depends on which reformation you are referring to. Generally, though, the Christian Reformation is considered to have begun...
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There were many but one of the most important was that the common people started to get the Bible in their own language. The...
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Wesley ordained Dr. Thomas Coke in 1784.
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JUst off the top of my head...THe Vatican...
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Personal faith in Christ alone. For this, he was castigated by the "mother" church. The formal title really explains this: "A...
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England took over Ireland in 1171, though parts of the country were only effectively subjugated in following years.Nominally a...
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The reformation in England came as a result of King Henry VIII of England. He wished to divorce his first wife because she did...
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Roman Catholic AnswerFor the most part "people" in general had no complaints about the Church before the reformation. There were...
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The Book of Concord is a 16th century Lutheran document which is a compilation of beliefs and teachings of Christians from around...
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There were two main churches: Roman Catholic and Orthodox. - UPDATE -Actually there were three main churches at the time, the...
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Luther basically created the ninety-five theses because he thought the whole idea of indulgences were foolish.
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Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation
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Roman Catholic AnswerBecause of prejudice.
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Roman Catholic AnswerThe only "issues" that caused people to become discontent with the Church before the protestant revolt were...
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The selling of indulgences- forgiveness, sometimes in advance, for sin. He saw that the church was becoming rich by selling the...
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<a class="h2heading h2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" name="Answer">Answer</a> These are the 3 main reasons! Power...
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the reformation began as a crisis of faith within the chirch, which in turn led to a challenge to the institutions of the church,...
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Martin Luther, professor of biblical studies and Augustine monk, initially called only for reforms to the sale and use of...
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Martin Luther's beliefs conflicted with church doctrine and practices in a number of ways. Luther struggled with the Roman...
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You'll want to do a search under "Protestant Reformation" to get a complete answer to this. Martin Luther was the first of the...
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Calvinism was based on new reform movement that began in France, adopting a position mid-way between the Lutherans and Zwingli. ...
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Protestant and Lutheran The word 'Protestant' Comes from the Latin term 'protestari' which means to publicly declare or to...
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Education provided all kinds of opportunities for Jewish men and women in many parts of Europe (and America) from the 1860s...
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It started in Germany with Martin Luther and in England with people like William Tyndale. Basically, it started where ever those...
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Around October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany. In those days, it...
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corrupt.
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the Bible
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Roman Catholic AnswerThere any number of conditions that existed that predisposed to the protestant revolt, but none that...
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From a Catholic perspective, the Reformation acted as a "housecleaning" of sorts. The corruption of the Church, as seen in the...
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Positive consequences of the Protestant Reformation were more religions to choose from better access to Protestants A much...
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Yes and no. It did obtain change in the established church, however it also created further schisms that continue today.
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the thirty years war was a conflict over religion and territory and for power amoung European ruling families,the war can be...
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The heretics were those who were unfaithful to religion after the catastrophe in the late middle ages, where 3 popes were elected...
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or Mormon Church regards itself as a Christian Church, although most other...
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As God is the mighty creator of everything, he must be blamed ;);)
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Martin LutherMartin Luther they were actually thesesMartin LutherA former Augustinian monk and leader of the Protestant...
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Puritans are calvanists.
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It allowed both the Enlightenment philosophes the freedom to express their ideas on the most important political, social,...
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Beacuse he answers "Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I...
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Salvation was gained through faith alone. The Bible was the sole source of religious truth. The idea that priests or the Church...
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) authored the seminal act of the Reformation in 1517. The Reformation of the church is considered to...
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Lutheran is a protestant sect and basically follows its beliefs, like the disbelief on the Virgin Mary, the saints, the statues...
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The usual term for the religious movement which made its appearance in Western Europe in the sixteenth century, and which, while...
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