What was the revolt in Europe against the Catholic Church?

Answer 1

The religious revolt against the Catholic Church was known as the Reformation. Disagreements over certain by-laws, the way the church was being run, as well who was qualified to interpret the scriptures eventually led to a split in the Christian community, and Protestantism was born.

Answer 2

Which one? There have been many rebellions, almost all of them were started by the Churches abuses towards citizens. In 986 A.D. the Catholic church split and Prodestant Christianity began. That could be considered the largest rebellion of the Catholic Church.

Answer 3

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Catholic AnswerIt is called the Protestant Reformation by protestants and secular historians, it is known as the protestant revolt by Catholics. It was lead by an heretical Catholic priest named Martin Luther.

Answer 4

People who rebel agains the Catholic Church are called Heretics. The Catholic Church is nearly two thousand years old, there have been untold heresies which were religious movement against the Church in that time. A short list of the "Great Heresies":

The Circumcisers (1st century)

Gnosticism (1st and 2nd centuries)

Montanism (late 2nd century)

Savellianism (early 3rd century)

Arianism (4th century)

Pelagianism (5th century)

Semi-Pelagianism (5th century)

Nestorianism (5th century)

Monophysitism (5th century)

Iconoclasm (7th and 8th centuries)

Catharism (11th century)

Protestantism (16th century)

Jansenism (17th century)

Answer 5

Background of the Revolt

Churchmen criticized the administration of the church and began to doubt some of its teachings. For example, the church insisted that it alone had the authority to interpret the meaning of the Bible for the people. As early as the 14th century, however, John Wycliffe, an English priest and teacher at Oxford University, declared that people had the right to read the Bible and interpret it for themselves. Despite protests by the church, followers of Wycliffe translated the Bible from Latin into English in 1382 and carried copies throughout the countryside. Wycliffe's ideas spread into Bohemia, where Jan Hus widely preached them in powerful sermons. The work of Wycliffe and Hus greatly influenced a Saxon monk named Martin Luther.

Luther became the leader of the Reformation in Germany. For some years he had protested that some of the clergy were selling indulgences (temporal pardons of sins) without making clear that people must also be sincerely repentant for those sins. He especially attacked the monk Johann Tetzel for deceiving the people. In 1517 the angry Luther wrote a list of 95 theses against indulgences and nailed them to the door of the church in Wittenberg. He declared that the vows taken by monks and nuns were not binding and that monasteries should be abolished. He rejected the celibacy of the clergy. Of the seven sacraments Luther kept only two--baptism and the Lord's Supper (Eucharist).

Other scholars helped to spread the Reformation. Philipp Melanchthon, Luther's colleague at the University of Wittenberg, became the chief theologian of the Reformation in Germany. Johannes Reuchlin of Heidelberg enlarged the field of ideas by fostering the study of Hebrew and Greek. Knowledge of these ancient languages enabled people to read the Bible in its original forms. From Johannes Tauler of Strasbourg had come the mystic idea of "heart religion," which had led to Luther's doctrine of "justification by faith."

Other Reasons for the Reformation

The Reformation was partly an outgrowth of the Renaissance. The uneasy political situation in Europe also helped to extend the religious revolt because many local rulers wanted their independence from the emperor Charles V. Finally, many tradesmen and peasants were seeking more rights from rulers and landlords and resented the church because they believed that it favored their oppressors. Throughout Western Europe there was unrest.

Luther's challenge of old religious doctrines and traditions became a rallying point for these forces of discontent and provided a motive for breaking established ties. Widely different groups--from princes to peasants--hailed him as their own special leader. Gradually, however, they all saw that he was not working for any special group, and so by 1530 many of his followers had drifted away from him. By that time, however, the Reformation had spread beyond the control even of Luther.

Answer 6

Your question is unclear, however, the great revolt against the Roman Catholic Church was the Protestant reformation.