Protestant Reformation
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¶ … Protestant Reformation continues to reverberate throughout Western Civilization; the differences between Catholic and Protestant religions remain clear even in the 21st century.

The Protestant Reformation was a full-fledged ideological, political, and social revolution. Efforts to reform the Catholic Church were directed not just at the religious institution itself: its theological doctrines,…

For most of the 1000 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Catholic Church was the only centralized authority in Western Europe. But beginning in the 15th century, people began to question the authority of the Catholic Church and specifically the Pope. What followed was a turning point in the history of Western Europe and the Catholic Church's position in society.

The Protestant Reformation shook the Catholic Church to its very core; it fundamentally and publicly brought into question the divine authority of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and its doctrines.

Western civilization has thrived for centuries, with the combined power and influence of the State and the Catholic Church. History up to the 16th century had witnessed a flourishing society influenced and ultimately,…

Protestant Reformation occurred as a reaction to the increasing encroachment of the Catholic Church on the political, social, and economic affairs of Europeans. Although the Protestant Reformation had a strong…

There were several problems within the Christian church which led to 16th-century religious revolution called the Protestant Reformation and ended the supremacy of the pope in Western Christendom.

The Protestant Reformation forced the Catholic Church to redefine itself, its "inner life," and the role it would play in the greater social, political, and theological rubric of Christianity.

¶ … Double Blind of the Protestant Reformation: The Birth of Fundamentalism and the Necessity of Pluralism" presents a useful and interesting argument. This article appears in the Journal of Church and State, a…

The Protestant Reformation was not an event that sprang full-grown upon Europe like Athena out of the head of Zeus; the seeds of the Reformation had in fact been sewn years before Luther or Zwingli or Calvin or Knox…