Why did the reformation take place?

Question

Does anyone know why the reformation took place? It could be religious causes , economic causes and cultural causes

Answer 1

There were several things that led up to the Reformation. That the Bible was only available to the educated class, and then only in Latin, was one cause. The selling of indulgences and the doctrine of Purgatory was another. Luther wanted to get the Church away from a works based salvation (indulgences) to a faith based one.

Martin Luther posted 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517. The main thrust of the 95 theses revolved around the selling of indulgences, especially as advocated by a Dominican Priest, named Johann Tetzel, who coined a phrase, "As soon a coin in coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs."

Others in the same era were inspired to reform the church, one of these is John Calvin, who did the bulk of his work in Geneva, Switzerland.

Answer 2

If you are meaning the Protestant reformation, it was caused by a need to stand up for the truth of the Holy Scriptures. Over time, the faith once delivered to the saints was altered by those in authority. The Roman Catholic church kept people from learning or seeing the sriptures for themselves. This allowed manipulation of interpretation. Martin Luther was an educated man who stood up against the false teachings coming from the church of his day. I was raised, Lutheran, but over the years I have learned that Martin Luther did not go far enough with his reform. The secret is to learn what Jesus really taught His disciples during the first century before religious and political authority took over.

Answer 3

There were many reasons. The main reason being that Martin Luther was a purist and believed in the purity of scripture. The Catholic Church had, for lack of a better word, become a business, scaring and manipulating its followers into contributing money in exchange for the souls of their loved ones. The main avenue for this was the invention of 'indulgences' in which the church printed pieces of paper that stated that their loved ones would be saved if they paid X amount of money for their soul to leave purgatory. This became accelerated with the help of the printing press, newly invented by Gutenberg. Knowing their power, the church began to be the only medium to God. Reformationists sought a more personal and pure relationship with God. The catholic church taught that only they should interpret scripture, while Luther thought other wise. In fact, interpretation of scripture was deemed a heresy prior and during the Reformation. The behavior of many clergymen, mostly during the Black Death when they fled the dying and needy to save themselves from death, caused many to question the intergrity of the catholic church.

There were also several other smaller reformations, in Switzerland for example, in which things like Iconoclasm was banised (the worship of statues/art of religious icons)

Answer 4

those dates are all variety subjective, in view that countless issues have been occurring at diverse circumstances in diverse places in Europe...yet, the Reformation surely occurred after the midsection a while. to make sparkling: In 476, Rome became sacked via the Goths. that's the start of the midsection a while (AKA the darkish a while/ the Medieval era) around the 14th century the Renaissance starts. The Renaissance wanes exceedingly plenty after 1500 (nonetheless maximum state the 1527 sack of Rome because of the fact the decent end) After that, the Reformation starts up! maximum have self assurance that it formally began in 1517, after the Renaissance and nicely after the midsection a while.

Answer 5

It came about because of a multitude of levels of which the two pinnacles were Henry VIII and the Anglican Church founding and Martin Luther and the Lutheran Church founding.

There were, however, others including Calvin, Wycliffe and others who were advocating a different religious direction other than that of Catholicism. The success of Luther and the Anglican Church made these efforts possible as it created a climate conclusive to alternative belief systems even though there was shunning and even violence from individuals, it wasn't like with Luther who had a "hit" put on him by the Catholic Church in which it was Open Season on Martin Luther.

After Germany and Sweden went mostly Lutheran the powers of the Catholic Church began to wane.

Another factor was the Fall of the Byzantine Emprire by the Turks. That put the Catholics being attacked on several fronts.

The Eastern Orthodox, the Anglo-Saxons, the Germanics and now the Muslims.

Between 1100 to 1700 the Catholic Emprie went from controlling most of the known world to clinging to life with about 1/3th the nations it used to have and many of those nations now polarized by both Muslim and Protestant influcences.

The Catholics have never recovered and keep losing grounds due to the Protesant concepts of married priests, divorce, reading the Bible and interpreting it directly and liturgy in local langauge.

The Catholics began to liberalize by printing bibles in Local Languages and making them avaiable and most recently going to local language for liturgy.

It, however, took them 300 years to make Bibles avaiable and 500 years to speak in local languages.

Eastern Orthodox had been doing that since at least 1200 AD.

Answer 6

The catholic church of the 1500's allowed many practices that were un-biblical. Martin Luther, and others tried to "reform" the church, but were thrown out instead. Their followers became the churches of the Protestant Reformation.

Answer 7

the reformation took place because Martin Luther disagreed with what the Catholic church was teaching. there are 95 things which he put on the doors of the church in protest to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Grace Alone, Christ Alone, Faith Alone, are just some examples of the things that he disagreed with. basically it happened because of a disagreement over doctrine.

Answer 8

Martin Luther studied the book of Romans and found the that the teachings of the church did not mirror the teachings of the Bible. He learned that the church used its position to control people. Over time this happens because instead of being faithfull to the believes of ones faith, man attaches more and more rules to allow only those they want in and keep out those they don't want. By doing this they prevert the faith instead of living the faith.

Answer 9

All of the above.
Read a biography on Martin Luther.

Answer 10

Because corruption was being exposed, the will of man had taken over the will of God (see the apostasy all throughout the Bible)