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Protestant Reformation Transition

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The Renaissance was the age of transition and revolution. Renaissance means rebirth and the rebirthing began in Italy during the 14th century and progressively spread north and west to other countries like Germany, France, England, and Spain during the late 15th and 16th centuries. From approximately 1350 to 1600, there were many transitions that took place. Transitions like the Catholic churches dividing and having to compete with Protestant churches that reformed medieval religious unity. Transitions like developments of Lutheranism and Calvinism that oppose the Roman Catholic Church. Transitions like the rise of a modern state and architecture which was accredited to this age as well. Protestant Reformation was a huge part of the European transition during the 16th century which was initially aimed at reforming of faith and methods of the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant Reformation’s religious characteristic were boosted by bureaucratic monarchs who wanted to extend personal power and control individuals through the Church. The Reformation ended the unity imposed by medieval ways of the church and proclaimed the beginning of the modern age. Protestant was not initially applied to the individuals that wanted to reform …show more content…

Martin Luther was an Augustinian Monk that had issues with his own spirituality and started researching for answers. During that search, Martin Luther felt that he found people were justified by their own faith and not the sacraments received of the church. In 1517, Luther came against the Catholic church’s practice of selling “Letters of Indulgences” to buy their way out of hell and into heaven after time spending in purgatory. John Calvin, a French scholar, was also a pioneer of Protestant Reformation. Although Calvin believed slightly different from Luther, there was freedom from the Roman Catholic church teachings within both religions of Lutheranism and

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