Protestant Reformation
Church schism movement
The Protestant Reformation was the sixteenth-century religious movement that broke from the Roman Catholic Church, beginning with Martin Luther's challenges to church authority and doctrine in 1517.
It produced Lutheran, Reformed, and other Protestant denominations that rejected papal authority and emphasized scripture and faith.
The movement reshaped European politics, culture, and Christianity permanently.
Often shortened to the Reformation.
- Martin LutherProtestant Reformation founder
- church doorBuilding entrance for worship
- John CalvinFrench Protestant reformer
- Augsburg ConfessionLutheran doctrinal declaration, 1530
- Schmalkaldic LeagueProtestant princes' mutual defense pact
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Protestant ReformationCounter-Reformation
Church's internal reform movement
Protestant Reformationpapal supremacy
Pope's highest ecclesiastical authority
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