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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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What regions of the country were Catholic after the Reformation?
Where did the covenant come from?
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is an evangelical Christian denomination of more than 750 congregations in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents
Why did humanists want to reform society in the renaissance?
Humanism During the Renaissance. The Renaissance was an incrediblyimportantturning point in Western Intellectual and Cultural Tradition . ... The majorpollical changes of the Renaissance were from the old Feudal System of the Middle Ages into a more flexible and liberal class system.
Which Protestant reformer preached the doctine of predestination?
Predestination is most closely associated with John Calvin. See, for example, his Institutes of the Christian Relgion
What came first the Protestant Reformation or the Renaissance?
The Protestant Reformation took place in 1517, and split Christianity between Catholicism and Protestantism. Rhode Island was founded by radical theologian, Roger Williams in 1636, after being driven out of the Massachusetts colony for what was considered radical thinking in those days.
What does protestant reformation argue?
The Protestant Reformation argued that the pope was not the central means to discern what God wants. They said that the bible serves that role and this is why the split with the Catholic church.
Why did Henry viii split from the catholic church?
Because he wanted a divorce from his first wife and the Catholic church wouldn't let him.
--------------------------------Why did henry split from the Church?
Short answer is , he didn't! Henry simply followed the teachings of the ancient Church and pointed out,virtually, that the Pope had no authority outside his own See,Rome! Te Bishop of Romewas so incensed at being unmasked that he withdrew from Communion with Henry!
Around October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the church door in Wittenburg, Germany. In those days, it was common practice to nail (or tack, more likely) public documents to the church door for all to see. Shortly after Luther nailed that document to the church doors, several printers took it, translated it into German (it was originally written in Latin for only the church officers to be able to read), printed and distributed a great number of copies. It was thus circulated around Germany, and sent to the pope.
By tradition, Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. It is likely that this is merely folklore based on an account by Philipp Melanchthon who was not even in Wittenberg at the time.
Whether or not they were actually nailed to the door of the church as an invitation for discussion, the Latin Theseswere printed in several locations in Germany in 1517 and subsequently translated into German in January 1518.
Where did Martin Luther hide from the Church?
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Martin Luther never hid from the pope. He was offerred safe conduct to stand trial in Rome, but understandably refused, citing what had happened to Jan Huss who had also been promised safe conduct but ended up burnt at the stake. He remained in Germany, where he was relatively safe.
How did the reformation and renaissance periods influence the enlightenment movement?
The Renaissance was the time after the Dark Ages when new forms of music, literature, drama, and art began to be seen. Renaissance means 'new birth'. These began to affect people's lives in an uplifting manner. Joy was brought into their lives again as was fresh thinking.
The Reformation was a continuation of these new ideas and emotions, prompting new ways to look at Scriptures which was part of everyone's lives back then.
These influenced the Enlightenment by opening the way people thought about things instead of being confined in thought per the Catholic Church at the time.
For the first time, philosophers could posit a world without God controlling every aspect of life.
Which countries turned protestant in the Reformation?
Some protestant countries include:
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Denmark
- Norway
- Sweden
- England
There are more also. A good website to look at is http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcindex.htm which is the CIA world factbook. IT lists all the countries in the world and most of their vital information including religion.
It is possible that if the Catholic church had undertaken reform that the Protestant Reformation would not have occurred. This is because the Protestants were fed up with the Catholic clergy abusing their power and behaving corruptly.
What was the response of the Catholic Church to the protestant revolt?
The Catholic response to the protestant revolt is called the "Counter Reformation"
from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957
The Counter-Reformation is the name given to the Catholic movement of reform and activity which lasted for about one hundred years from the beginning of the Council of Trent (q.v., 1545), and was the belated answer to the threatening confusion and increasing attacks of the previous years. It was the work principally of the Popes St. Pius V and Gregory XIII and the Council itself in the sphere of authority, of SS. Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo in the reform of the clergy and of life, of St. Ignatius and the Jesuits in apostolic activity of St. Francis Xavier in foreign missions, and of St. Teresa in the purely contemplative life which lies behind them all. But these were not the only names nor was it a movement of a few only; the whole Church emerged from the 15th century purified and revivified. On the other hand, it was a reformation rather than a restoration; the unity of western Christendom was destroyed; the Church militant (those still on earth) led by the Company of Jesus adopted offence as the best means of defence and, though she gained as much as she lost in some sense, the Church did not recover the exercise of her former spiritual supremacy in actuality.
How did martin Luther begin the the Reformation?
He is credited with it because he started a new church and he also was not the first reformer but he was the first one that actually lived and who was allowed to do it.
How did the protestant reformation impact the New World?
In general terms, the European Reformation affected European settlement of the Americas in a positively reinforcing way. Indirectly, unrest and instability within European nations generated additional explorations and then settlement-attempts. Directly, restive or outrightly disillusioned religious groups in European nations sought actively to relocate to New World regions for the sake of opportunities to live and believe as they saw fit.
What did the protestants reject?
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The protestants were objecting to practices in the Roman Catholic Church that they considered immoral and not according to Scripture. The usual example is the selling of indulgences. An indulgence shortens the time a soul must spend in Purgatory before entering Heaven, and were sold to finance building needs in the Roman Catholic church. The advertising (?) slogan attributed to the sellers was "When the coin in the coffer rings, the sould from Purgatory springs".
Did Martin Luther nail his thesis to the door?
In a bit of hyperbole, This day in history writes: On October 31 in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. You may read them at the link below, but be prepared, they are neither revolutionary nor did they start the protestant revolt, they were very Catholic theses for the most part.
Where similarities between Renaissance and reformation and printing press?
reformation is reformation and protestant is protestant.
Where When did Martin Luther write the ninety five theses?
Martin wrote the 95 theses because he believed that the church was wrong for making people who wanted to be forgave for there sins pay.
What political and economic factors helped bring about the reformation?
The development of movable type by Gutenberg in the 1400s allowed for the writings of the Reformers as well as their translations of the Bible into contemporary languages to be spread quickly throughout Europe.
How did the Protestant Reformation contribute to the start of the enlightenment?
It led Europeans to begin questioning traditional authorities
What were the goals of the educational reform movement?
To understand the aims first we must look back into history.
Protestant revolution was not the origin of protestantism.The first protestant church was the apostolic church. (the church depicted in new testament do not pray to "saints" or use statues\images in prayer worship.) Thus it was protestant in essence.
Later in 4th century Constantine the then roman emperor gave Christianity a special status in his empire,inorder to consolidate the diminishing power of his goverment because of the fastly increasing christian minority that was spread throughout the Roman empire.Through the edict of milan, thessalonica and council of nicae what they did was not toleration for christianity,but to create a new fake religion in the name of Jesus,in which they integrated the ancient roman idolatry as the practice of intercession to saints.Many christians at that time were against this.Some of them were donatists,early manichaens,paulicians,bogomils,cathars,waldensians,hussites and finally protestants.
When Constantine gave chritianity a special status in his empire inorder to conolidate the diminishing power of his government because of the fastly increasing christian minority that was spread throughout the Roman empire., majority in his empire was still pagan and they found it hard to forgo of their old idolatrous practices. So the state changed the names of their old idols to "christian" names and continued to use them in prayer/worship . This came to be known as "intercession/veneration to saints" and is still practiced by catholic and orthodox 'christians'.True christians like donatists(n.africa,s.europe),early manichaens(middle east,,central asia) opposed this practice,but catholics branded them heretics and massacred them.Iconoclastic movement of (7th-8th century) century was against this practice, later protestant revolution (15-16th century) was waged mainly against this practice.
Thus when constantine gave christianity special status in his empire,idolatry also entered along with it in the unsuspecting name of "intercession to saints".This soon spread to most of the church,because such was the influence of roman empire at that time.But few like donatists(north african christians) and followers of mani ~ Manichean's (mani was a 2nd century apostle of jesus whose followers spread from persia to balkans in the west and to china in the east,before falling into oblivion probably because of islamic conquest) remained true to the gospel of christ.
Later remenants of these christians spread to turkey and balkans where they were called paulicians and bogomils respectively.They were behind the iconoclastic movement of 7-8th century.Both these groups came under heavy persecution from catholics because they dared to expose the truth of christ to them.Finally they were wiped out by catholic crusaders,en route to capture Jerusalem by a secret directive from vatican in 12th century,perhaps the real intention of antichristians(catholics) for taking up crusades was to wipe out true christian like paulcians and bogomils who exposed their idolatry and lies.
But almost simultaneously,the spirit of God started 2 new christian movements in heart of catholicism itself~in italy and france . In italy they were called waldensians and in france they were called cathars .Cathars were wiped out in the 12th centutry by catholic crusaders~a mass murder popularly called as cathar/albinesian crusade (catholic church still take great pride in these crusades) .But italian waldensians continued inspite of severe catholic persecution and they remain to this day .
By 15th century printing was invented and bible became available to masses . They came to know about truth that catholic church was doing idolatry in the name of god . They revolted and it came to be known as protestant revolution and were led by many great leaders like jan hus,jan zizka,martin luther,ulrich zwigli,john calvin,john knox,john wesley and many others .Today protestants number more than 800 million .
In future (after the soon coming WW3) they will unite as single god's church and all people living on earth will be it's members.The 3rd temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and it shall be called "the house of prayer for people of all nations" exactly as Jesus predicted nearly 2000 years ago.Animal and other sacrifices will be offered there in the rememberance of the ultimate sacrifice ofJesus Christ on the cross,just as it symbolized the coming sacrifice of christ in the old testament period.This will remain till coming of christ ( rapture) .
In rapture believers will be taken and hypocrites left behind to face great tribulation(such as never happened before or never will in the future) which will last for 7 years.The first half of this tribulation will be very prosperous, making people of earth deluded,it will be like a strong "wine' of delusion sent by god to people who rejected him.In the half of this 7 year period antichrist will break his agreement with jews and put up the awful horror in the holy temple.He will require all to have number 666 imprinted on them to buy or sell.Those who get this mark of 666 are damned for eternal hell.So anybody who happens to be in tribulation period,want salvation he/she has to die as martyrs or get the mark of christ(144,000 people).
I understand catholics will be angered by this, but their anger is in vain because this is the truth and truth will triumph.Also note that throughout the centuries catholics branded(and still branding) all these groups as dualistic pagans heretics who need to be wiped out from face of earth... such brandings were less effective against prots,inorder to fulfill the prophecy of Jesus-"You are peter(petros-masculine noun in greek, meaning a small stone) and i shall build my church(non feminist protestantism) on this rock(petra-feminine noun in greek, meaning a large mass of rock,not the degrading dead body of peter buried under vatican as catholics claim/believe)and gates of hell(catholicism and oter false religions/ideologies) will not prevail over it".
The Roman Catholic Church interprets Jesus here to say, "You are Peter, and upon you, Peter, I will build My church." Peter would be the rock upon which the Church would be built . He would be the "prince of all the apostles and visible head of the whole church."
There are several problems with this interpretation. The first is that someone reading Matthew's Gospel in Greek, the original language of the New Testament, would not have immediately concluded that Peter was the rock. In the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus said to Simon, "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church" (Matthew 16:18), His choice of words was significant. Though Peter's name means rock (petros), Jesus did not say, "You are Peter (Petros), and upon this rock (petros-which accurately means a small unstable stone) I will build my church,instead he said you are peter(petros) and i shall build my church on this petra(meaning bedrock,or a large rock mass).
Peter's name, Petros,is masculine in gender and refers to a boulder or a detached stone. Greek literature also uses it of a small stone that might be picked up and thrown.
What Jesus said to Peter could be translated, "You are Stone, and upon this bedrock I will build My church." His choice of words would indicate that the rock on which the church would be built was something other than Peter,which can only refer to the revelation given to Peter by the most high God,that is-Jesus is the Christ(messiah), the Son of the living God.
What happened to the monasties when Henry closed them?
For the most part they were sold to wealthy private buyers amongst the Nobility and Gentry! Both Catholic and Protestant bought them! The money went in to the Kings Coffers, while the monks and nuns obtained pensions and carried on some sort of religious life,quite often.
Some monasteries were turned in to schools and other monies gained from the monasteries went to pay the cost of bishoprics that were formed.
