Religion during the Renaissance
9/18/17
So people were really getting upset about the Pope and religious practices during the Renaissance...
- The pope had a bad rep for many reasons
- Babylonian Captivity
- Great Schism
- Some fight with the German Emperor Frederick II
- He spent a ton of money on arts and not the poor
- He focused more on wealth and power for nobility than God
- People started getting salty at the Church and wanted to change it (known as anticlericalism)
- Most changes didn't go through and people got more mad
- People were thinking more and word could travel faster thanks to the Gutenberg press so when new ideas formed they became more widespread
- This led to the Reformation
- Super religious friar
- Was mad about people selling indulgences in order to get out of purgatory faster
- He had a lot (95) problems with these indulgences and he wrote about them
- He especially didn't like the pope
- Word spread thanks to Gutenberg and people learned about Luther's works
- Church got mad but Luther didn't care and kept doing what he was doing
- People that liked what he was saying became Lutherans
- Given the name protestant because PROTESTant (they protested the church)
- Martin Luther's On Christian Liberty
- talks about how faith alone is enough for salvation
- People are both free and a servant to all others
- Soul is free
- Body is servant
- Although Protestantism attracted many people, some still found problems
- New groups branched off of this group
- Lutherans are considered the people who follow Martin Luther's teachings
- Calvinists
- Anabaptist
- Anglicans
- The formation of these new religions show how much change and reform the Church was under during this time
- People were looking for solutions catered to their personal view
- Individual > group
- Ex) Calvin was personally upset about the indulgences and decided to do something about this. In earlier times (without the printing press and modern thought) he would have been deemed a heretic and killed.
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