The Great Reform: The Reformation By Harry Russell

The Reformation – Harry Russell

The great reformation was a time when the Presbyterian and other religious churches split off from the Catholic Church because they did not believe in the Catholic Churches teachings. This happened in the sixteenth century, mostly because of one very important person martin Luther. Martin Luther started out wanting to be a lawyer, but one day was caught in a lightning storm and thought he was going to die. He then swore that if he lived he would swear his life to god and became a monk. from then on this lead martin on his incredible journey to eventually uncover the all of the scoundrel and massive money-making scheme of the Catholic Church. Causing great debate between Luther and the people of god against
One of the reasons social effects were such a great influence towards the reformation was the invention of the printing press. This meant that many more books and posters were able to be printed and distributed across the lands, this in turn meant that the information of the Catholic Churches massive scoundrel spread through out the lands of many different places much more efficiently. Which made people able to get behind Luther and his teachings to help him spread the word even wider across the country. This only made Luther even stronger in his protest against the churches teachings that he did not agree with. Without the printing press it would not have been possible to spread word of Martin Luther’s teachings as quickly. This would have in turn given the church a chance to stomp out Luther’s fire before it had even started, stopping the reformation in its
I think the religious reasons the reformation happened because Martin Luther disagreed with the teachings of : indulgences, relics and how the church made the people of god interpret the bend and corrupt versions of the bible. This was because most people were not taught how to read and write. This meant that the church could manipulate the people of go by using high priest’s to teach the bible to work to the churches advantage. Martin Luther soon discovered this when he went to Rome. This made Martin very disgusted and angry, This anger was the fire that started the reformation and lead Martin Luther to eventually crushing the Catholic Church and cause the other churches to disperse from the Catholic Church. This Great uncovering lead to thousands being slaughtered due to the high powers of the church thinking the only way to stop the reformation was to kill anybody who did not agree with the churches teachings and was backing up