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
Martin Luther
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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