Protestant Reformation

The Protestant Reformation “The righteous shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17) “I understood that the righteousness of God enables the just to live, that is, by faith. A merciful God justifies us by faith…” Martin Luther stated this in his writings some twenty-five years after he was attacked for his views of the church, and right before his death. The Protestant Reformation destroyed religious unity of Western Europe. Scholars, for the first time, were challenging the …

…With this reformation, Church beliefs began to change among classes. The middle and lower classes were beginning to revolt against the church, and the individual began to think for himself and question the Catholic Church. The Protestant Reformation was one of the most and challenging reformations against the Catholic Church, even though most of the ideas of the reformation were rejected, it is a great sign of courage and the secular spirit of the Renaissance.