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What led to the reformation?

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During the medieval times before renaissance church had a strong hold on education
(Roman Catholic Church). The main problem was that the church was powerful, dictatorial and dogmatic and nobody could question it. There was the infallibility of the pope. He was always right. A lot of practices and of religion had come up. People were opposed to 2 main things

a. Sacramental systems
b. Indulgencies

Sacraments e.g. baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, marriage, romance, ordination;These were overemphasized and people were opposed to them.

Indulgencies – paying for holiness – paying of money for sins. Church was corrupt. The reformers wanted change. They wanted;

· A return to the simple religion of charts came up with the creed
· A return to belief of Christianity as explained by scriptures and by early fathers
· They wanted to be allowed to read the bible without any intermediaries
· To be allowed to make decisions as to what their Christian duty was after personal interpretation of the bible

The church refused these demands and the reformists protested. Broke away and formed the protestant churches. These were either priests or bishops. Two of them were; martin Luther and john Calvin. The new churches had their own theologies of education. They started their own schools and had their own ways of teaching. Generally speaking the Protestants emphasized individual biblical reading and interpretation. It influenced their education in that it encouraged universal literacy practices. Reformation was an application of the renaissance way of thinking to religion. Certain factors facilitated the reformation;

1. Renaissance – it formed the base for critical thinking encouraged people to question church and its practices.
2. Idea of shift from thinking about heaven, new discoveries taking place and commercialization made people not happy with the conservative theology of the church and therefore wanted something different.

3. There was a general ill will from Germany to Italy. Italy was the seat of the church. Other countries in Europe contributed to Italy. Germany was against this. When martin Luther German rebelled, people supported him.

marto answered the question on May 20, 2019 at 06:23

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