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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 were the consequences of Luther's ninety-five theses?
The church began to split up. Those that followed Luther became Lutherans and many other factions of Christians grew as well.
How did Henry viii contribute to the Protestant Reformation?
Henry VIII started it. In his fight with the Pope over his divorce of Katherine he cut himself off from the Catholic church and made the Church illegal in England. He began the Church of England and started to take the church properties from the Catholic church and close churches. He had churches destroyed, arrested clergy, and took church property. Thus, the Protestant Reformation was begun under his rein. Anne Boleyn added to it by pushing Henry to keep up his fight with the church and published articles against the church. They were enable to enrich the Crown with the goods and property of the Catholic church.
What key issues sparked the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther began by criticizing the selling of indulgences and insisting that the Pope had no authority over purgatory and that the saints did not have any basis in the Gospels. This criticism later grew to include criticism or denouncement of most Catholic principles.
What were the main causes of the Reformation?
1. Church Abuses Simony Nepotism Absenteeism Pluralism
2. Lavish lifestyles of the popes and clergy
3. Indulgences
Education, Luther did not understand why the Bible was read in a latin, a language that the people did not understand and that it should be for all - not just the educated clergy. He felt it should be read and studied so the ordinary person could understand. He also sought for it to be printed so people could read it at home and teach themselves which was not allowed
Who was responsible for beginning the Protestant Reformation movement?
As English was originated from the dialects of North sea Germanic.so the British was responsible..
What did Martin Luther post on the church door known as?
What he supposedly posted on the Wittenberg Castle Church door on October 31, 1517 was the 95 Theses or called " A Disputation on the Power and Efficacy Indulgences".
What was the date of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation?
The reformation started with Martin Luther's posting of his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenburg church. Although he only intended to end corruption in the clergy & papcy & end the selling of indulgences, the movement had a life of its own. Princes realized they could profit from seizing Church property and thereby become richer, more powerful, and more independent. The 'big deal' was that it split Western Christianity, led to questioning of Church authority, years of warfare, a separate Protestant Northern Europe, the Scientific Revolution, new technology, navigation, theory of a heliocentric universe implied the Church could err, leading to the questioning of the Church's authority to establish the 'truth', the Inquisition's burning of heretics, both Roman Catholic and Protestant abuse of women by burning 'witches' and eventually to freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of speech, demand for academic accountability in establishing 'truth'. The Reformation was a major paradigm shift for Western culture and influences lives today. The first answerer neglected to answer the question. Although Luther's Posting is only one possible date for the start of the Reformation (Wycliffe preceded him, for instance), even agreeing to Luther, since the question asked "What date..." it might have been useful to include it. Luther put his postulates on the Wittenburg door on October 31, 1517.
Did Martin Luther reform England in Henry vii reign?
Martin Luther never visited England, though his famous 'Ninety Five Theses', written in 1517, and his other works, were printed and widely circulated across Europe, including England, certainly by 1519.
England certainly experienced and was involved in what has been called the Protestant Reformation. The ' English Reformation' was a series of events, and probably the most significant being those which took place during what has beome known as the English parliament's 'Reformation Parliament' of 1529.
However, poor Henry VII died in 1509, so he would have missed all of this!
What are facts about Martin Luther and the Reformation?
What are some facts about Martin Luther and the Reformation? Well, I have a project about these things and have a few answers. 1. Christianity has five branches: Catholic, Luthern, Reformed (based primarily on the theology of Calvin), Anabaptist (the radical groups, emphasizing complete separation of church and state), and Anglican (the compromise solution in England). 2. Martin Luther was the first reformer. 3. Much evidence shows that Luther was known- and either loved or hated- throughout Europe within several years of posting his ninety-five theses about indulgences in 1517.
How did the selling of indulgences cause corruption in the Catholic Church?
The church is supposed to direct ones spiritual life and ones relation with God. The idea that you can pay money to the church and thus be excused in advance for your evil action is contrary to the purpose of the church .
Where were martin Luther's 95 theses written?
95 thesis Although Justo Gonzalez records in his The Story of Christianity that there was a set of 99 theses taking on the Roman Catholic doctrine of soteriology (salvation, including justification by faith and works), while the later and more famous 95 theses took on the Roman Catholic practice of indulgences. Interestingly, Gonzalez doesn't document the statement about the 99 theses, and I haven't read it in any other history, biography, or theology.
When did martin Luther start the reformation?
31 October 1517, when he nailed his "95 Theses" to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, criticising certain practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
What was a major part of the Protestant Reformation?
An argument over indulgences
Martin Luther was unhappy with the Church and decided to take the task upon his shoulders, though it was really the pope's job. Eventually his pride took over and he thought that he was the only one who knew what would be right. The pope realized after this, that they did need reform and called up a council called the Council of Trent to make the much needed changes in the Church.
John Calvin's view of the Lords Supper?
Calvin tried to avoid what he considered two major errors. First, that the wine and bread were supernaturally turned into the essence of the body and blood of Jesus (Roman Catholic belief) and second that the Supper was a memorial to someone who died a long time ago. Therefore, he emphasized that the Lord's Supper was a remembrance of Christ, held in obedience to Christ's command, and that the risen Christ is fully present with the celebrants and that they do receive spiritual nourishment from Him through this sacrament.
From Wikipedia (see link)
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Calvin defined a sacrament as an earthly sign associated with a promise from God. He accepted only two sacraments as valid under the new covenant: baptism and the Lord's Supper (in opposition to the Catholic acceptance of seven sacraments). He completely rejected the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and the treatment of the Supper as a sacrifice. He also could not accept the Lutheran doctrine of sacramental union in which Christ was "in, with and under" the elements. His own view was close to Zwingli's symbolic view, but it was not identical. Rather than holding a purely symbolic view, Calvin noted that with the participation of the Holy Spirit, faith was nourished and strengthened by the sacrament. In his words, the eucharistic rite was "a secret too sublime for my mind to understand or words to express. I experience it rather than understand it."
What were the major effects of the Protestant Reformation?
Why were muckrakers important to the reform movement?
- The muckrackers helped to reform things. For example, after writing The Jungle in 1906, Upton Sinclair directly affected the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and also the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who was the German reformation leader?
Martin Luther, although it should be noted that the Bible had already been translated into German in the Gutenberg Bible over 40 years earlier (but those translators were not Reformation leaders). Luther was responsible for the first German Protestant Bible.
When was the reformation of the church?
The reformation did not have a particular date or year...in a way it happened gradually...Martin Luther was the trigger and kind of pushed the refomation to finalisation. If you had to put on a year on it...it would be in 1517! Thanks! :) The reformation did not have a particular date or year...in a way it happened gradually...Martin Luther was the trigger and kind of pushed the refomation to finalisation. If you had to put on a year on it...it would be in 1517! Thanks! :)
Who were the important people during the Reformation?
- Theodore Beza.
- Martin Bucer.
- Heinrich Bullinger.
- Johannes Hus.
- John Calvin.
- Andreas von Carlstadt, later a Radical Reformer.
- Wolfgang Fabricius Capito.
- Martin Chemnitz.
What happened after Luther posted the 95 theses?
Martin Luther condemned clerical abuses, especially the sale of indulgences in the Ninety-Five Theses. This document is considered the catalyst of the Reformation.
Peter Waldo, Valdo, or Waldes (c. 1140 - c. 1218), also Pierre Vaudès or de Vaux, is credited as the founder of the Waldensians, a Christianspiritual movement of the Middle_Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions of southern Europe. Due to lack of reliable documentation there is a great degree of debate over Waldo's role in the Waldensian sect which may have existed before his leadership.
(copied and pasted from Wikipedia)
