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it started with the protestant reformation led by martin Luther
Answer: During the Middle Ages, the most powerful institutions in Europe were the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire. The empire was made up of hundreds of estates of various sizes and covered an area now occupied by Austria, the Czech Republic, eastern France, Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, and parts of Italy. Since the German estates comprised its major part, the empire came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Each estate was ruled semiautonomously by a prince. The emperor himself was a Roman Catholic of the Austrian Habsburg family. Therefore, with the papacy and the empire in power, Europe was firmly in Roman Catholic hands.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, however, the established order was shaken. Throughout Europe there was widespread dissatisfaction with the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church. Such religious reformers as Martin Luther and John Calvin spoke of a return to Biblical values. Luther and Calvin found widespread support, and out of this movement grew the Reformation and Protestant religions. The Reformation split the empire into three faiths-Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist.
Catholics viewed Protestants with distrust, and Protestants held their Catholic rivals in disdain. This climate led to the formation of the Protestant Union and the Catholic League in the early 17th century. Some princes of the empire joined the Union, others the League. Europe-and the empire in particular-was a powder keg of suspicion that needed just one spark to send everything up in smoke. When that spark finally came, it started a conflict that lasted for the next 30 years.
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What religious organization was the reformers of the Protestant Reformation protesting against?
What religious organization was the reformers of the Protestant Reformation protesting against
What event shattered religious unity in Europe?
The simplest answer would be the Protestant Reformation. This changed Europe from being united under the Roman Catholic Church to being divided between Catholicism and several Protestant groups, such as the Lutherans.
What is colin firths religion?
Colin Firth is a Catholic having converted from being a Protestant
What is a protestant religious movement?
Reformation
What is the name of religious settlement?
The Elizabeth religious settlement was a middle way between catholic and protestant. More favourable to protestant than catholic
What were Hans Holbein's religious beliefs?
I found on a website saying that Hans Holbein best known was for being a protestant in the 16th century
What religious symbol begins with P?
protestant
What was the religious affiliation of Max Planck?
Protestant
What was the renaissance protestant religious movement?
The Reformation
Why did the first settlers come to Plymouth?
They were called Pilgrims because their trip from England was a religious pilgrimage. They were escaping the restrictions there on how they practiced their form of Protestant Christianity.
Is Jim Carrey religious?
Yes I think he is protestant
In the 1500s what where the results of the religious struggle?
The Protestant sects.
