it divided the roman catholic church which lead to protestant churches
It weakened people's faith in Catholic leaders
It weakened people's faith in Catholic leaders
There were a whole lot of people and events that sparked the Protestant revolt, tracing back, in large part, to the Great Schism, the Schism of the East, also know as the Avignon Captivity, when the Popes were in Avignon for some years. Two influential voices behind the Protestant revolt were John Wycliffe and Jan Hus. But the insane Augustinian Friar who finally sparked the break with Christ's Church was Martin Luther.
Schism In the Great Schism of 1054, the Catholic Orthodox Church (as it is now known among scholars) split into two parts, each part claiming to represent the original Church. Heresy A heresy implies that a minority group accepts a belief that the majority finds abhorent to their religion. Arianism was regarded as a heresy because it held that Jesus was not truly divine. Reformation The original purpose of the Reformation leaders was to reform the Roman Catholic Church. It was only after the Church resisted change, that the Protestant Churches began to break away.
Henry VIII did a great job of preventing the Protestant Reformation from having any great affect on England - until he needed a divorce. When the Catholic Church refused to grant Henry VIII a divorce, he decided to make his own version of Christianity, where he made the rules. Henry VIII started the Anglican / Church of England, where Henry VIII was the head of the church (much like the Pope). Henry VIII gave himself permission to divorce and ordered all his subjects to become Protestant.
It weakened people's faith in Catholic leaders
It weakened people's faith in Catholic leaders
There were a whole lot of people and events that sparked the Protestant revolt, tracing back, in large part, to the Great Schism, the Schism of the East, also know as the Avignon Captivity, when the Popes were in Avignon for some years. Two influential voices behind the Protestant revolt were John Wycliffe and Jan Hus. But the insane Augustinian Friar who finally sparked the break with Christ's Church was Martin Luther.
Schism In the Great Schism of 1054, the Catholic Orthodox Church (as it is now known among scholars) split into two parts, each part claiming to represent the original Church. Heresy A heresy implies that a minority group accepts a belief that the majority finds abhorent to their religion. Arianism was regarded as a heresy because it held that Jesus was not truly divine. Reformation The original purpose of the Reformation leaders was to reform the Roman Catholic Church. It was only after the Church resisted change, that the Protestant Churches began to break away.
It was seen as punishment for the Catholic Church's corruption.
What caused this division was human belief in different things. Second there was also a language problem between Latin and Greek and the issue of disunity in the Roman Empire.
the Great Famine the Hundred Years' War the Black Plague
it was always faith
The Great Schism was the division of Chalcedonian Christianity into the Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches. The Great Schism began in Constantinople in 1053.
The only two examples in the Catholic Church are the Great Schism in the fourteenth century when there were two claimants to the papacy, and at one time, three. And earlier in the eleventh century when the Schism of the East occurred and the Eastern Orthodox Church split from the authority of the Pope. Some might include the protestant revolt, but as these people left the Church and did not retain valid Orders or Sacraments (saving baptism in some cases), it is not properly a schism.
the Great Famine the Hundred Years' War the Black Plague
We do not know when the first schism in the Christian Church occurred. Even in the time of Saint Paul, he talks of opponents and those who taught a "different Christ". By the beginning of the second century, and probably earlier, Christianity was divided along two major lines: what is sometimes now called the proto-Catholic-Orthodox Church and the Gnostic Churches. Marcion made his break from Rome in the middle of the second century. The split of the Coptic Church from the Catholic-Orthodox Church occurred in 451 CE. The Great Schism of 1054 separated the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The Western Schism of the fourteenth century temporarily split the Catholic Church. The Protestant Reformation was the next major schism, in the sixteenth century.