Reformation
Church split era
The Reformation was the 16th-century religious movement that split Western Christianity, as reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin challenged Catholic Church practices and doctrines.
It produced Protestant denominations and reshaped European politics, culture, and thought.
The Reformation changed the relationship between church and state. (Lowercase reformation means the act of reforming.)
Protestant Reformation initiator
- CalvinProtestant Reformation leader
- WittenbergReformation's starting point
- Elizabeth IFinal Tudor sovereign
- GutenbergPrinting press inventor's name
Reason proving rightness
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
faith · salvation · priesthood · confession · purgatory · transubstantiation · liturgy · catechism
European cultural reawakening
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- modernityBeing of present times
- EuropeSmallest inhabited continent
Germany · England · printing press · monarchy · nationalism · revolution · upheaval · Schmalkaldic League
Reformation-era Protestant denomination
- CalvinistPredestination theology adherent
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
- AnglicanChurch of England member
- BaptistImmersion-practicing Protestant
Mennonite · Huguenot · Anabaptist · Puritan · evangelical · Protestantism · Anglicanism · Puritanism
Luther
Protestant Reformation initiator
- CalvinProtestant Reformation leader
- WittenbergReformation's starting point
- Elizabeth IFinal Tudor sovereign
justification
Reason proving rightness
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- scriptureSacred religious writings
grace · faith · salvation · priesthood · confession · purgatory · transubstantiation · liturgy · catechism · covenant
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- modernityBeing of present times
Europe · Germany · England · printing press · monarchy · nationalism · revolution · upheaval · Schmalkaldic League · Peace of Augsburg
Lutheran
Reformation-era Protestant denomination
- CalvinistPredestination theology adherent
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
- AnglicanChurch of England member
Baptist · Mennonite · Huguenot · Anabaptist · Puritan · evangelical · Protestantism · Anglicanism · Puritanism · Calvinism
- German ProtestantismMartin Luther, 95 Theses, Lutheranism, Wittenberg, Augsburg Confession
- Church Eras
- church historychurch history, apostles, Christian history, baptism, medieval church
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, sixteenth century, seventeenth century
- Western civilizationphilosophy, history, literature, classics, art history
- Western humanitiesRenaissance, Enlightenment, humanism, Romanticism, classical antiquity
Reformationstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
conservatism · preservation · traditionalism · status quo · orthodoxy
Reformationcorruption
Dishonest abuse of power
deformation · degradation · decline · decay · deterioration
- radical reformationSweeping foundational change
- Protestant ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- Counter ReformationRome's response to Protestantism
- English ReformationEngland's break from Catholicism