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    The Protestant Reformation

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    The Protestant Reformation Throughout the Middle Ages the Catholic Church was subject to much criticism and disappointment. The Great Schism brought about a feeling of mistrust and separation. More and more people of Europe were beginning to lose their faith in the church’s leadership. One man by the name of Martin Luther ignited a group of people who believed that the Church had fallen away from the teachings of Jesus and their meanings. They also believed that the Church was overly obsessed

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    Discuss the political and social consequences of the Protestant Reformation in the first half of the sixteenth century... In the early sixteenth century‚ Western Europe’s religious face was dominated by the Roman Catholic faith. The Catholic Church was the sole athority power of day to day values‚ and before long‚ conflicting social and political issues began to shake the foundation of the corrupt Catholic Church. Moreover‚ Western Catholics began to realize the corrupt nature of the Church;

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    The Renaissance was a period in European civilization from about the 14th century to the 17th century‚ following the European Middle Ages. The Renaissance brought forth new thoughts and ideas‚ leaving behind the fixed ideologies of the Middle Ages. This paper will discuss how the emergence of Humanism through literature and art‚ the Protestant Reformation‚ and the fall of the Byzantine Empire are some of the most important factors that sparked the beginning of the Renaissance. Firstly‚ Europe’s

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    In this paper‚ I will be talking about the protestant reformation. The protestant reformation was the breaking of the Catholic church’s power and the beginning of a new era for Christianity. God used a Catholic monk‚ Martin Luther‚ to see the light and spread it to the whole world that was in the dark. The Catholic church had made being a Christian a job instead of a loving relationship between the people and their creator. God’s Champion‚ Martin Luther‚ started a revolution that changed the course

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    Renaissance and Reformation

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    Renaissance and Reformation Test Humanism- Classical texts from the Greek and Roman culture lead to humanism. Humanism focused on human potential and achievements. People stopped worrying about Christian teachings. Influenced artists and architects. History‚ Literature‚ and Philosophy are humanities subjects. Secular- People became concerned with the here and now Predestination- Calvin’s book/doctrine; Institutes of the Christian Religion states that everyone is sinful by nature and God has known

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    The colonies were created for various reasons‚ by different groups of people. Both before and after the Protestant Reformation‚ many of the colonies were created so that persecuted people could escape the Church of England and practice their own religion without fear. The Protestant Reformation began when Martin Luther nailed his protests against the Catholic Church on the doors of a church in 1517. In his writing he denounced the authority of priests and popes and claimed that the bible was the

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    Before the reformation‚ Europe was dominated by the Catholic Church. The church was very powerful both politically and spiritually. It was the most wealthy and powerful institution in Europe and owned about one third of the land in England. They controlled and influenced almost every aspect of life for the people. Social life was centered on worship services‚ prayer rituals‚ and religious festivals and ceremonies. Thousands of people lived in monasteries and were employed by the church. Bishops were

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    Renaissance means a "rupture" with the unity that until then had been "supranational". Renaissance is the name given to the extensive movement of cultural revitalization that takes place in Western Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A new mentality emerged that manifested itself in the intellectual‚ cultural‚ religious‚ and artistic spheres. There are several cultural changes; humanism‚ intellectual movement and renaissance‚ artistic style. There are also some changes of mentality because

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    Renaissance Content The Renaissance was knows as the “rebirth”‚ the revival of the culture of classical Greece and Rome. People started taking interest in learning classical Greece and Roman texts‚ therefore there was a rebirth of learning (also because the Medieval times lacked education). It transformed economics and trade‚ knowledge and learning‚ and the arts. It begins in Italy in the 1350s after the Crusades and later spread to Northern Europe. Italy became the birthplace because

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    APEH Chapter 11 and 12 Study Guide I. Ch. 11 Age of Reformation (16th Century) pp 317 (K) Ch 4 (Viault) A. Society and Religion 1. Social and Political Conflict a. free imperial cities of Germany and Switzerland b. internal social and political divisions c. economic issues of the early reformation 2. Popular Religious Movements and Criticism of the Church a. "exile" in Avignon and the Great Schism b. Growing criticism of the Church c. The Modern Devotion 1) Brothers of the Common Life

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