The Protestant Reformation led to conflict primarily because it challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and its practices, particularly regarding salvation and church governance. Indulgences were payments made to the Church that were said to reduce punishment for sins, which reformers like Martin Luther criticized as corrupt and a distortion of true Christian faith. This criticism ignited widespread theological debates and social unrest, ultimately resulting in wars and divisions within Christianity. The Reformation's challenge to established religious norms fueled tensions between Protestant reformers and Catholic authorities, leading to a lasting impact on European society.
The Reformation led to the division of Christianity into Catholic and Protestant faiths.
increased rivalry between European nations
it divided the roman catholic church which lead to protestant churches
The Protestant Reformation set Catholics and Protestants against each other throughout the empire. It also made one religion the required belief system for a multi-country empire, which caused conflict since Protestantism disagreed with many other belief systems across Great Britain.
A:Martin Luther initially sought to work within the Catholic Church to reform the use of indulgences. The Catholic Church refused to countenance any change, as a result of which Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Ironically, his reforms eventually did lead to change within the Catholic Church, in the form of the Catholic Reformation.
It weakened people's faith in Catholic leaders
It weakened people's faith in Catholic leaders
The disagreement between the Protestants and Catholics eventually led to civil war in Switzerland.
The Protestant Reformation began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church, carried out by Western European Catholics who opposed what they perceived as false doctrines and ecclesiastic malpractice - especially the teaching and the sale of indulgences or the abuses thereof, and simony, the selling and buying of clerical offices - that the reformers saw as evidence of the systemic corruption of the Church's Roman hierarchy, which included the Pope. Both issues were dealt with in an altogether different manner by the Roman Catholic Church during the Counter-Reformation.
It led some rulers to oppose the pope in the hopes of seizing that power for themselves.
Henry the 8th changed and turned the Catholic Church to Protestant in order to divorce and remarry as he couldn't get a Papal dispensation. Most of the country became Protestant, specifically members of the Church of England.
less religious tolerance.