Protestantism

from the sale of indulgences. Since a belief of Lutheranism is that the only way to achieve salvation is through faith alone and not by buying indulgences, the sales of indulgences most likely decreased because of the increasing popularity of Protestantism. As another result of the new religions that came from the Reformation, religious wars broke out in Europe. The funding of these wars were not cheap, because these armies were much bigger than medieval armies, and to pay for them, governments…

As Max Wever discussed in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, the protestant thought influenced economic matters through Calvinistic Protestantism. Calvinistic Protestantism is a theological belief system that had an immense “influence on the emergence and growth of capitalism as mode of economic organization” (Johnstone 210). Weber’s goal was to illustrate the relationship between religion and economics as well as the “how religion, as embodied in Calvinism, affected the economy,…

The English Reformation involved the break of the English church from the Roman Catholic Church. This creation of Protestantism changed not only the dynamics of the church but also of the society of England. It took off in England for multiple reasons, but a commonly known reason has to do with Henry the VIII and his desire for a divorce. This has been an overpopularized reason as there were many more factors that played into the English Reformation. As it went though, Henry VIII was in the…

Protestant preachers (Southern Protestantism 309). This however, came with completely different effects than that of the North. In the previously mentioned Methodist and Presbyterian churches the South created their own identity in supporting their long time practice of Slavery. They very nearly split North and South over the issue of slavery. On the other hand, the Baptist church actually did have a schism with the Southern Baptists supporting slavery (Southern Protestantism 310). Because of…

and a book called “Education of a christian prince” about how to exercise “absolute rule over free and willing subjects”. (Brotton 53-54) Within Protestantism the Clergy held no distinction from the laity and some places, like england; overturned the pre existing monasteries and nunneries and redistributed the wealth they found there (Class). Protestantism while it was the largest of the new religions was simply a platform and many more specialized religions fell into place, like Calvinism in…

church, instead of leaving the church as mostly Catholic in practice like his father had. Mary I, on the other hand, tried to revert England back to Catholicism. And finally, Elizabeth I started her reign by being diplomatic, careful not to lean on Protestantism or Catholicism too much, but as she spent more time as the monarch she became more and more Protestant and her policies illuminated that shift. Each monarch contributed to the religious debate that had taken over England,…

of Protestant Lutheranism in Germany. This growth led to distrust between Charles the Emperor of much of the Catholic world and German princes who had turned to Protestantism as the alternative to Catholicism. A clear criticism of Charles can be seen in the writing of William Robertson, ‘To check the growth of these evils (Protestantism) , and to punish such as had impiously contributed to the spread of them, the emperor, having long and without success made trial of gentler remedies,’…

a. What were the central ideas of the reformers, and why were they appealing to different social groups? During the early sixteenth-century, people from all across Europe began to have problems with the Catholic Church. Educated professors, common people, and even some religious officials were calling for a reform in the church. The people who led the reformation, known as the reformers had four different central ideas that were the basis of the reformation. The first central ideas of the…

The reformation greatly affected the political state of Europe. After Lutheranism in Germany, many of its princes converted to protestantism. These princes eventually created the Schmalkaldic League against the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. All this conflict eventually led to long war the war finally ended by the Peace of Augsburg. This peace treaty led to the Emperor losing power and letting Germany to determine if it was Catholic or Protestant. The reform also affects other parts of Europe…

council meeting. Now Martin Luther of course was not the first to question the doings of the church, however it was certainly his fuel that sparked the fire in the Church’s separation (Reformation Web). His theories are also the basics to the Protestantism ways of…