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The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [ 1] 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. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the ...
Martin Luther OSA ( / ˈluːθər / LOO-thər, [ 1] German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈlʊtɐ] ⓘ; 10 November 1483 [ 2] – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. [ 3] Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism.
Protestantism originated from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The term Protestant comes from the Protestation at Speyer in 1529, where the nobility protested against enforcement of the Edict of Worms which subjected advocates of Lutheranism to forfeit all of their property. [ 1] However, the theological underpinnings go back ...
Church music during the Reformation developed during the Protestant Reformation in two schools of thought, the regulative and normative principles of worship, based on reformers John Calvin and Martin Luther. They derived their concepts in response to the Catholic church music, which they found distracting and too ornate.
The Puritans, a much larger group than the Pilgrims, established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 with 400 settlers. Puritans were English Protestants who wished to reform and purify the Church of England in the New World of what they considered to be unacceptable residues of Roman Catholicism.
The Ambassadors (Holbein) The Ambassadors. (Holbein) The Ambassadors is a 1533 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger . Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, [ 1] after the two people it portrays, it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. Franny Moyle speculates that Elizabeth's mother, Anne ...
The early churches of the Reformation believed in a critical, yet serious, reading of scripture and holding the Bible as a source of authority higher than that of church tradition. The many abuses that had occurred in the Western Church before the Protestant Reformation led the Reformers to reject much of its tradition.
The Protestant Reformation was initiated by the German monk Martin Luther. By the early 1520s, Luther's views were known and disputed in England. [14] The main plank of Luther's theology was justification by faith alone rather than by good works. In this view, God's unmerited favour is the only way for humans to be justified—it cannot be ...