Reformation
1. It is important to study European religious history because regardless of ones personal beliefs, it is important to be able to see through lenses in which others view religion. Along with this religion is very political, therefore if one has a better understanding of religious principles one will have a better understanding of politics.
2. The Reformation might be seen as a political revolution because this lead to uncountable denominations of christianity. This lead to people changing how they looked at themselves, wider european literacy, and forced governments to grant religious freedoms. From this, reformation caused almost more of a political revolution rather than religious.
3. The bible was written strictly in Latin. This meant that one usually only met one other person who could ever read it whom happened to be a pope or priest. This gave the priests an exponential amount of power. The priests wanted the bible to always be written in latin because of all the religious, political, and personal power they gained through being able to read it.
4. Church corruption was part of the story of the reformation. Luther, after becoming a monk, focused on all the corruption in Rome such as prostitution and priests light of their duties hurrying through mass so fast it seemed to be pointless. This lead Luther to being obsessed with sins particularly his own church confessed forced him to go back to an Wittenberg University.
5. Luther became quite radical when the Indulgences were created. The Indulgences were a written promise created by a priest to reduce a sinners time. Johann Tetel, the author of the Indulgences stated that one can, "pay your way out of hell." Luther thought this should be "for sale" and when he saw beggars scrapping up money for a "useless piece of paper", he wrote 95 thesis and nailed it to a church door on October 31, 1517. This lead to a series of debates with other men of the cloth in which Luther's beliefs became more radical. He stated "christians are saved only through faith and the grace of god". He then added, "the churches rituals didn't have the power to save souls", again followed with the church and pope make mistakes all the time. He became so extreme as to saying the church had no spiritual powers. This was an extremely bold thing to say in the time and place he was in, and because of this he was seen as an extremist. He was an extremely influential man, brining up ideas no one chose to address prior. With this the printing press helped make him so influential. Over 2000 works of Luther's was published and many priests read them.
2. The Reformation might be seen as a political revolution because this lead to uncountable denominations of christianity. This lead to people changing how they looked at themselves, wider european literacy, and forced governments to grant religious freedoms. From this, reformation caused almost more of a political revolution rather than religious.
3. The bible was written strictly in Latin. This meant that one usually only met one other person who could ever read it whom happened to be a pope or priest. This gave the priests an exponential amount of power. The priests wanted the bible to always be written in latin because of all the religious, political, and personal power they gained through being able to read it.
4. Church corruption was part of the story of the reformation. Luther, after becoming a monk, focused on all the corruption in Rome such as prostitution and priests light of their duties hurrying through mass so fast it seemed to be pointless. This lead Luther to being obsessed with sins particularly his own church confessed forced him to go back to an Wittenberg University.
5. Luther became quite radical when the Indulgences were created. The Indulgences were a written promise created by a priest to reduce a sinners time. Johann Tetel, the author of the Indulgences stated that one can, "pay your way out of hell." Luther thought this should be "for sale" and when he saw beggars scrapping up money for a "useless piece of paper", he wrote 95 thesis and nailed it to a church door on October 31, 1517. This lead to a series of debates with other men of the cloth in which Luther's beliefs became more radical. He stated "christians are saved only through faith and the grace of god". He then added, "the churches rituals didn't have the power to save souls", again followed with the church and pope make mistakes all the time. He became so extreme as to saying the church had no spiritual powers. This was an extremely bold thing to say in the time and place he was in, and because of this he was seen as an extremist. He was an extremely influential man, brining up ideas no one chose to address prior. With this the printing press helped make him so influential. Over 2000 works of Luther's was published and many priests read them.