What is the Prostestant Reformation?

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Answer 1

The Protestant Reformation (in a nutshell) was a reform movement in the Christian church to combat the abuses of the Roman Catholic church at the time (the sale of indulgences, selling of church offices, etc).

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Answer 2

The Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation is the name given to a religious and political development in the early 16th century. The reformation was led by Martin Luther, a monk from Germany. He said that the Roman Catholic church was corrupt and that it should be reformed. Luther also argued that a reformation was needed of other things. In particular reformation was required with regards: the language that the Bible was produced in: most people couldn't read Latin; the selling of forgiveness, this was considered to be immoral by Luther but had been standard practice by some monks and priests for years. The ideas behind the Protestant Reformation were simple. The church should be changed, or reformed, so that it was less greedy, fairer and accessible to all people, not just the rich and well educated.

The protest against the church was not entirely new. In England there had been similar protests in the 14th century: although these had been crushed. Luther though gained a lot of support for his ideas. Many people were unhappy with the Pope and the church.

The Protestant Reformation in England


King Henry VIII was initially opposed to the ideas of Luther. he was praised by the pope for a pamphlet that he wrote in 1521 that criticised the German monk. However after the Split with Rome many of the things that Luther said should happen, did happen in England. Henry VIII ordered Bibles to be published in English and took much money and land from the church. However Henry did this for political gains, not because he supported the ideas of Luther. However because of his actions Henry VIII laid the foundations of Protestantism in England which under the rule of Edward and Elizabeth would transform England from a Catholic to a Protestant nation. By 1603 the Protestant Reformation in this country was complete.

Answer 3

It is an event that occurred in England, at the end of the Rennaisance period... there was a rebellion against the Catholic Church, where a certain group of people broke away from the Church and founded the Protestant religion, fighting to divest Catholics of their supreme hold on European life. The Protestants were more scientific-oriented, and more liberal, the opposite of Catholicism's conservativeness and religious orientation. This is where the rift between science and religion began that we still see today, with science's argument that religion is not ever going to wake up and look at the realities of nature, and religion says science has no right to question God.

Answer 4

The Catholic church had become corrupt and was no longer following the principals of the Bible, so Martin Luther made the 95 Thesis, and started the reformation. That is when the Protestant church began. When a church turns away from the teachings of the Bible, it probably shouldn't be called a church any longer.

Answer 5

The Protestant "Reformation" (more accurately called the Protestant Rebellion, since it didn't reform anything) was the separation from God's Church of a group of proud men who thought they could do a better job of founding a Christian Church than God had done. They rejected the God-given authority of God's Church, devised new doctrines never before heard of in Christianity, and claimed that the book compiled by the Catholic Church for its own use would be their new "authority". Predictably, this has resulted in the ongoing fragmentation of Christianity into thousands of conflicting, unauthorized, manmade denominations, in direct violation of the stated will of God, "that they all may be ONE". The resulting plague of denominationalism has done more harm to Christianity from within, than all the efforts of its enemies from without.

Answer 6

Basically the Protestant Reformation was an attempt to change the Catholc Church from its corrupt ways. It started in 1517 when Martin Luther posted the 95 thesis on the door of the church. The 95 thesis was basically pointing out all the flaws of the Catholic Church.

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The protestant reformation was a movement in the 16th century to reform the Catholic Church in Western Europe. It is also referred to as the Protestant Revolution, Protestant Revolt, and Lutheran Reformation

Answer 8

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?---Martin Luther

“What then shall we Christians do with this damned, rejected race of Jews?
First, their synagogues should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered or spread over with dirt so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. And this ought to be done for the honour of God and of Christianity, in order that God may see that we are true Christians.
Secondly, their homes should be likewise broken down and destroyed.
Thirdly, they should be deprived of their prayerbooks and talmuds in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught.
Fourthly, their rabbis must be forbidden under threats of death to teach anymore.” – Martin Luther

“If I find a Jew to baptize, I shall lead him to the Elbe bridge, hang a stone around his neck, and push him into the water, baptizing him with the name of Avraham!.. I cannot convert the Jews. Our lord Christ did not succeed in doing so; but I can close their mouths so that there will be nothing for them to do but to lie upon the ground.” – Martin Luther

“I hope I shall never be so stupid as to be circumcised; I would rather cut off the left breast of my Catherine and of all women.” --- Martin Luther

“If we are to remain unsullied by the blasphemy of the Jews and not wish to take part in it, we must be separated from them and they must be driven out of the country.” – Martin Luther

Jesus did not call them Abraham's children, but a "brood of vipers" [Matt. 3:7]. Oh, that was too insulting for the noble blood and race of Israel, and they declared, "He has a demon' [Matt 11:18]. Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore in John 8 [:39,44] he states: "If you were Abraham's children ye would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil. It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.------Martin Luther

Learn from this, dear Christian, what you are doing if you permit the blind Jews to mislead you. Then the saying will truly apply, "When a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into the pit" [cf. Luke 6:39]. You cannot learn anything from them except how to misunderstand the divine commandments...------Martin Luther

St. John Chrysostom: “I know that many people hold a high regard for the Jews and consider their way of life worthy of respect at the present time... This is why I am hurrying to pull up this fatal notion by the roots ... A place where a whore stands on display is a whorehouse. What is more, the synagogue is not only a whorehouse and a theater; it is also a den of thieves and a haunt of wild animals ... not the cave of a wild animal merely, but of an unclean wild animal ... When animals are unfit for work, they are marked for slaughter, and this is the very thing which the Jews have experienced. By making themselves unfit for work, they have become ready for slaughter. This is why Christ said: “as for my enemies, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them and slay them before me’ (Luke 19.27).”



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Answer 9

This could also be a stretch however the Calvinists. Started by means of John Calvin he got here up with the concept of predestination. . .God knew who could be stored earlier than the sector was once created. Let me recognize if that works!

Answer 10

The Protestant Reformation established the central fact that God, NOT the Roman Catholic Church, saves sinners.