Luther’s arguments referred to a direct relationship with God and using the local vernacular to speak to the people. Luther’s arguments removed the absolute power from the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church in general. The revenue from the taxes paid to the Church would be reduced with Luther’s ideas, in part because of the removal of buying souls out of purgatory. And thanks to the printing press, Luther’s 95 Theses was reprinted throughout Germany, which soon attracted many followers, as well as many enemies. In 1520, the Pope excommunicated with Martin Luther.
These two events were similar and different in two aspects: they were different because while the Lutheran reformation had many doctrinal changes, the catholic reforms made no revisions whatsoever to the beliefs of the catholic church; and they were similar because they both resolved many corrupt practices which was critical for both Protestantism and Catholicism because it added an appeal to the two sects of Christianity allowing either of them to gain popularity. The most apparent difference between the two reformations was the changes in the doctrines of Catholicism and Lutheranism. The Lutheran reformation brought on many changes to the catholic belief system and the catholic reformation yielded no changes to doctrine. One example of these doctrinal changes in the Lutheran doctrine is consubstantiation and transubstantiation. Catholics believed in transubstantiation which is that once one drinks the wine and eats the bread in communion; the bread and wine turn into the blood and flesh.
The Colonies were described as “melting pots”, because many different types of religions were settled there. Whereas, in England there was no religious tolerance and only one society of churches flourished throughout the whole country, which were the Anglicans. In Rhode Island people were given total freedom to worship any god and an absolute religious tolerance was offered to the citizens. Still the Anglican and the Puritans Congregation were the two main dominating religions of the colony. Although the majority being the Anglicans and the Puritans in the colonies, there were a small number of tax- supported churches and people still considered the separation
Despite the reformation, many ordinary people were religiously, socially and economically dependent on the remaining catholic institutions and social structures that remained, for example the Chantries. And whilst it can be argued that the protestant privy council under Somerset was hesitant to impress radical reform, their policy of completing the attack on church corporate property in the chantries act 1547, did more to dismantle the local community, and therefore the socio-economic stability of the ordinary person since the reformation. For example, the chantry was the cornerstone of local villages such as Morebath in Devon. The Chantries Act required representatives from each parish to declare anything that was liable for confiscation. For the people of Morebath, this meant a prohibition of the church ale.
The first thing he did was change the prayers books into English, the he abolished the Catholic Mass and was replaced with the Holy Communion, he turned Church interiors plain and simple, he told priests to wear plain clothing, he said priests couldn’t get married, he said you couldn’t buy your way to heaven and finally traditions were banned such as Christmas. He made these changes because he went to a protestant school, his advisors were protestant and he was a
Henry VIII Essay By: Billy Atkinson Henry VIII ruled England for about 38 years. In that time, he changed his countries religion from Catholic to Protestant. He created the Anglican Religion. Henry VIII changed his country in the best interest of England and not for selfish reasons like many historians say. If he didn’t change the religion for the best interest of England, we would have a higher crime rate and England would be destroyed.
Many felt the repealing the Stamp tax would be in the best interest of England. However some had felt that the English people had been paying this very same tax for years and thought it was ridiculous that the colonists are enraged over this. Many members of parliament thought that the stamp act was justified, after all Colonists hadn’t been able to raise sufficient funds during the French and Indian War. Great Britain thought that it was only fair that the colonists pay their fair share. However reluctantly to many Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.
During the Middle Ages, and even during the Renaissance democracy did not exist. The Catholic Church had absolute power over the Government as well as society in general because of the fact that so many people had not much to look forward to but going to heaven. This gave the Church the most power to rule over it’s citizens because people were afraid that if they were to disobey the Church they would be excommunicated from the Church and ultimately would not be able to go to heaven. However, during part of the Renaissance, the values of people began to change. The views of people became more secular, and the focus of education was pretty much to make a well-rounded ideal citizen, which means instead of religion being the main focus, humanism began to be shown.
Most of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church were dogma that could not be challenged or refused by Christians of the middle ages. And as it were, those teachings which forced down the throats of the people. Between 1170 and 1498 AD the glimpse of religious light began to shoot over the age, foretokens of the coming of the reformation. Before these tokens the papacy office became more involved in politics, they claimed to be more superior to the kings. The major concern was money in the Roman Catholic Church.
''The Great Awakening'' The Great Awakening was the first great American revival and first great national movement.It was a religious movement that contributed to separation of church and state in America.It started in the Middle Colonies,was also in the Southern Colonies,in Canada,and it was most famous in New England.It brought religion back to society.The Great Awakening persuaded many people and gave many sinners the option to be free of sins and in a good place in heaven. By the early 1700's religion had begun to slack in the colonies.Partly because many of the colonists were starting to worry more about their personal riches and materialistic things,instead of their own religious