The_Reformation

The Reformation The reformation period was one of the most significant events in modern european history because it was the spark that would eventually smother the fiery dominance of religious leaders in politics and would incite a modern world where the most advanced societies now embrace a division of church and state and a tolerance to freedom of worship. Through the acts of revolting peasants and the minds of a new set of leaders such as Martin Luther, Queen Elizabeth and Popes Paul III & IV, an enormous change in thought and practice would be born. Much of what we experience today in the most modern societies in our religious and political freedoms is a result of this most significant time in history. Indeed, if the events did not take place, what we now consider modern society may have looked completely different. Martin Luther, although only a monk, is credited with starting the Reformation by challenging the affairs of the church. Luther had been appalled by the selling of indulgences and engendered the 95 thesis, upsetting Johann Tetzel by posting it on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. Word spread quickly about Luther’s revolutionary ideas which instigated people to question church authority. This lack of confidence in the ways of the church led to a new autonomy church, religious, power, people, luther, state, societies, political, now, modern, minds, under, today, thought, thinking, step, practice, one, new, leaders, influence, elizabeth, create, continued, worship, word, woman, wittenberg, without, ways, vlll’s, viewed, upsetting, upon, uniting, trying