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- Money-generating practices in the Roman Catholic Church, such as the sale of indulgences. Demands for reform by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other scholars in Europe. The invention of the mechanized printing press, which allowed religious ideas and Bible translations to circulate widely.
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Having far-reaching political, economic, and social effects, the Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity. The world of the late medieval Roman Catholic Church from which the 16th-century reformers emerged was a complex one.
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The Catholic Reformation was a reform movement that took place within the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The movement is also known as the Counter Reformation, but many historians prefer not to use this term because it suggests that changes within the church were simply a reaction to Protestantism.
Oct 30, 2017 · By Mary Farrow. Washington D.C., Oct 30, 2017 / 15:36 pm. One fated Halloween, 500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle in a dramatic act of defiance...
Reformation. and Counter-Reformation. The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th. This was the time when Protestantism, through its definitive break with Roman Catholicism, arose to take its place on the Christian map.
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Money-generating practices in the Roman Catholic Church, such as the sale of indulgences.
Demands for reform by Martin Luther, John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other scholars in Europe.
The invention of the mechanized printing press, which allowed religious ideas and Bible translations to circulate widely.
The desire of many people to read the Bible in the language they spoke at home rather than in Latin.
The desire of many people to rely only on the Bible for religious guidance and not on tradition or current teachings.
A belief that forgiveness comes only from God rather than from a combination of faith and good deeds.
The emergence of Protestantism, which became one of the three major branches of Christianity (along with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy).
The establishment of many Protestant churches, groups, and movements, including Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, the Society of Friends (also known as Quakers), among others.
Translation of the Bible into German, French, English, and other languages.
The Counter-Reformation, a movement within the Roman Catholic Church to reform and revive itself.
Improved training and education for some Roman Catholic priests.
The end of the sale of indulgences.
Sep 1, 2017 · The Reformation is a general label used to refer to a wide range of calls for wholesale changes in the theology and practices of the Roman Catholic Church in Europe, primarily in the 1500s. “Reformations” may well be a more accurate descriptor.
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
