The Reformation

In my research assignment, I plan to discuss the Protestant Reformation. The report itself will include information about the Reformation, as well as a one of the most important leaders, Martin Luther. The Reformation is known as “the great 16th-century religious revolution”1 in the Christian Church. It ended the ecclesiastical superiority of the pope, in Western Christendom and resulted in the founding of the Protestant churches. It became a movement capable of shaping history, when …

…The religious civil war ended with the religious Peace of Augsburg in 1555. Its conditions provided that each of the rulers of the German states, choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism and enforce the chosen faith upon the ruler's subjects. Lutheranism finally gained the official recognition it had deserved, and the ancient theory of the religious unity of a single Christian community in Western Europe under the absolute power of the pope was then destroyed. 902 WORDS!!!