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Protestant Reformation
During the 16th century, when the Catholic Church was one of the most powerful churches in the world, due to its not so devoted and corrupt power, some criticism of its doctrine was born and became famous as the Protestant Reformation. The participators to the movement did not agree with certain vicious practices of the Catholic Church as indulgences, simony, excessive wealth that belonged to the Pope, and most of all, the violation of biblical and church rules by the clericalists. The Catholic Church was invited to reform those practices but instead that it definitely led to schism in the European Christianity. The split that occurred resulted in further deep social and political changes.
The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement that changed the world and European history in different ways. Because of the movement people started to worship God according to their beliefs and they did not look for guidance with religious issues from the Catholic Church. They started to abandon their European homes and oriented themselves to America where they had the freedom to worship their God in the way they preferred.
Along with the revisionism of the Catholic Church, that period was marked with the invention of the printing press by Johann Gutenberg. The invention helped the movement easily to spread their ideas but the most profound effect it had upon the literature.
Martin Luther became the epitome of the movement after he posted his 95 Theses on the doors of the church in Wittenburg but there were a number of early pretenders to the Catholic Church’s authorities like John Wycliffe and Jan Huss. Several years after Martin Luther’s dare, encouraged by him, appeared John Calvin and his doctrine became well-known from Geneva to the British Isles. It was embraced by King Henry VIII, actions based on dynastic concerns, and it was the beginning of the English Reformation.
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