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was the intense response to Protestants. 2017 marked the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s historic 95 theses. However, there are various factors/leaders that contributed to the growing popularity of the Reformation, such as: Meister Eckhart, Jan Hus, and Desiderius Erasmus. Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) who was a German mystic, theologian and philosopher. He played a crucial role in the reformation of Catholic Churches. His work was proven effective in leading to Martin Luther’s perspective of

of human civilization, and a subject of focus throughout history. During the Middle Ages, the works of John Wycliff and Jan Hus sought to reform the church and return power to its followers. This self empowerment through the reformation of their religious studies fathered core beliefs of the Humanism movement during the Renaissance. This movement uses the work of Wycliff and Hus to establish their own ideas about how to use scripture, and gives merit to the significance of the Middle Ages. John

Ancient religions tend to believe that the body is merely a vessel for the soul. Some, in their quest to achieve a more significant spiritual attachment with God, have lambasted their bodies as symbols of weakness and seek to rectify it through self-mutilation or starvation. In Judaism, for example, the Old Testament commands that the body be kept sacred. This restricts self-mutilation and even tattoos. However, fasting is still permitted and even encouraged. Aside from the commanded Old Testament

the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993. Back in the history-The Czech Republic The Czech Republic in the fifteenth century has been involved in conflicts between the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church. In the beginning of the century, Jan Hus started out a reform movement, who was a religious reformer, significant public and political figure for Czechs. In 1401, he became a priest and afterwards appointed as the preacher in the Bethlehem

The Reformation during the 16th century was something that had always been thought of and what is expected that had a positive impact on many people. Reformers that were in the medieval church like St. Francis of Assisi, Valdes, Jan Hus, and John Wycliff had thought about the aspects of the church and throughout life before 1517. During the 16th century, figures such as Erasmus of Rotterdam who was the chief proponent of liberal Catholic reform, had an ongoing concern before Luther told his Ninety-Five

This year is a special year in particular as of the year 2017 on October 31st celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. It started in Germany but then spread all across Europe. The Reformation was needed to help modernize Christianity but it also created divides in the Protestant Movement. What is interesting is that there were other movements within the Catholic Church that predated 1517, so what made Martin Luther so special. This paper will go in depth on the accounts of the reformation

Gustavo Huangal October 8, 2014 Bible 2nd Assessment Martin Luther Martin Luther, a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk has taught and inspired the Protestant Reformation. His translation of the Bible has helped to develop the correct version of the German language. Martin Luther was a great man. Martin Luther was born on the 10th of November, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. Hans and Margaretha Luder were his parents. In 1501, he had been enrolled in the University of Erfurt at the age of

The Morning Star of Inspiration John Wycliffe was a 14th-century English philosopher, theologian, and religious reformer, whose egalitarian ideas and beliefs laid the foundation for the Protestant Reformation. As Peter W. Williams notes in the World Book Advanced, Wycliffe was born sometime between 1320 and 1330 A.D. in Yorkshire, England, and was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford (Williams). According to Alessandro Conti in his entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, John

It was a chilly morning on the 31st of October, 1517 in the German town of Wittenberg. A priest walks with papers in hand to the church and, stepping up to the wooden door, nails the papers to the front of the church, posted for the town to see. Martin Luther, not knowing what he had just started, walked away from the church beginning what has come to be known as the Protestant Reformation. This Reformation is often viewed as a religious movement that eventually came to affect the political and social

the Catholic Church by posting his 95 theses in 1517, which were reasons on why the selling of indulgences, is immoral and misleading to people. While many people had tried to challenge the catholic church’s teachings in the past, like John Wycliffe, Jan Huss, and William of Occam, Luther’s ideas gained more of a following due to Johann Gutenberg’s printing press. Luther’s following, which was…….., broke off from Catholicism and began to developed their own beliefs and practices. While there are many