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Why Did The Protestant Reformation Happen

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The Protestant Reformation was the most important reformation to ever occur in religious history. It changed the way the world at Catholicism forever. It also gave birth to the many variations of the religion of Protestantism. Some of which being, Baptist, non-denominational, Lutheranism, and many more like it; these being the most popular. The Protestant Reformation aimed to reform the beliefs and practices of the Roman catholic church.
During the 16th century the entire point of the Protestant Reformation was to reform the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic church. There were numerous contributing factors as to why the Protestant Reformation occurred. Many of which were small reasons that added up. Yet there are a few main larger …show more content…

One invention however, changed all of that and actually made the Protestant Reformation possible. The invention that made it all possible was the Printing press. As the second theology lesson of the Third Millennium ministries states, “the printing press had been invented, and the Greek New Testament republished.” (Pg.2) With the invention of the printing press cam the rapid redistribution of the recently translated copy of the New Testament German Bible that Martin Luther translated. He did this because he felt that the people should be able to read the bible themselves and be able to take it into their own understanding. The printing press was able to produce an enormous amount of copies of the bible to be distributed to the people. The people had for the first time their own understanding of the bible and were ready for a change, and this change being the Protestant …show more content…

One of the most important influential pieces of the Protestant reformation was the translated version of the Bible as provided by Martin Luther. He was the very first person to translate the Bible from the Latin tongue to the tongue of the common German people. This gave the German people and eventually years later others, the ability to take the bible into their own understanding. As Howard R. G states in his work “The vernacular texts of the Bible granted the masses freedom to access truth.” (The Double Bind of the Protestant Reformation: The Birth of Fundamentalism and the Necessity of Pluralism) This access fostered a sense of individual freedom and thought.” This sense of individual freedom was the key for the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther translating the first bible from latin was incredibly important also because it inspired people in the future and continues to inspire them to translate the bible to make it possible for the native people to be able to

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