Friday, October 1, 2010
Protestant Reformation Thesis
Post your thesis for the DBQ: "Defend or refute the following statement: The Protestant Reformation was a unified movement of dissent against the Catholic church." Please include your name with the thesis. You must post before class begins on Tuesday 10/5. Please note, your comment will not be posted until I approve it, so don't worry if it doesn't show up right away.
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ReplyDeleteThe Protestant Reformation was a divided movement of dissent against the Catholic Church. Reformers disagreed on indulgences, had different interpretations of the Church’s traditions and rituals, and disagreed on the power of the pope and how the church should be managed.
ReplyDeleteConor McCann
ReplyDeleteThe Protestant Reformation was not a unified movement against Catholicism, as there were many different reformers involved with many different views. For example, Martin Luther’s main criticism of the Catholic Church in the beginning was the sale of indulgences and the corruption within the papacy, while John Calvin, believing in a predestined faith, disagreed with Catholicism, but saw no hope for the salvation of Catholics, thus it did not matter to him. Like Martin Luther, King Edward VI believed that deep faith was the key to salvation, while John Calvin believed in predestination, so simply doing God’s will on Earth was the key to salvation. The key figures of the Reformation had radically different views, thus the Protestant Reformation was not a unified movement against Catholicism.
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DeleteThe Protestant reformation was an united movement of dissent against the Catholic Church. The corruption, idolatrous ideas and sale of indulgences caused devout followers of God to unite and undo the wrongs of the church in an united dissent,so they could follower gods word and plan
ReplyDeleteJaylen Williams
The Protestant Reformation was not a unified movement of dissent against the Catholic Church. The people that broke from the Catholic Church had different ideas of what the correct way to worship was. While reformers such as Thomas Cranmer had ideas based on structural church reform, Calvin and Zwingli both based their ideas on a spiritual revolution in the church. The main players of the Reformation split the followers of Protestantism down sharp idealistic boundaries, therefore the movement was not unified.
ReplyDeletePat McGowan
The Protestant Reformation was not a unified dissent against Catholicism, in that the prominent reformers involved had contradictory views, specifically towards the sale of indulgences, the practices and perceptions of the Roman Catholic Church, and the division of power within the papacy. The leaders of the reformation did not agree upon a single unifying or overarching principle and therefore cannot be considered a unified and cohesive movement.
ReplyDeleteJesse Tiffen
The Protestant Reformation was the result of a unified mass of people's dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church. They were discontent with how the church exercised its power and was often times oppressive. The reformers held beliefs contrary to those of most Catholics, shown in controversies such as the selling of indulgences. The Protestant Reformation occurred when the religious outcasts began to detach themselves from the Catholic Church, where they were given no leeway.
ReplyDeleteNina Raffio
The Protestant Reformation took place because many people disagreed with the church, but the reformists all had their own problems with the church, so they were not entirely organized in during their own personal reformations. The only thing that the reformists had in common with other reformers was that they were tired of the Catholic Church and how they put a lot of stock into the Pope being as holy as god, and that they disagreed with some practices of the church such as the selling of indulgences. Some of the reformists believed in predestination, and others believed in the bible being above any person, but the reformists did not all agree on one specific vision.
ReplyDeleteDue to the widespread support and activism amongst the reformers across Western Europe, it can be concluded that the Protestant Reformation was a unified movement of dissent against the Catholic Church.
ReplyDeleteAfter years of trouble brewing within the Catholic Church something was bound to happen. The Protestant Reformation was a unified movement that had resulted from decades of pent up disgust and and anger with the way the the church handled its secular and ecclesiastical affairs. The Protestant Reformation allowed the people to posses a different perspective of the bible and not have to abide to the Pope.
ReplyDeleteThough the Protestant Reformation was a movement of dissent against the Catholic Church, it cannot be said that the movement was unified. The good amount of new religious factions that were formed during this time, all with different opinions and values, supports this. The widespread discontent with the selling of indulgences as well as the questioning of the Church's morals and beliefs were also crucial to the movement.
ReplyDeleteMaya Carter
While the feeling was unified, the actual people who fueled the dissent of the Catholic Chruch during the Protestant Reformation were not. Instead of merely seeing the reformation as a time to band together against the pope, plenty of people simply saw it as a way to get the corrpt papacy out of power so they could practice their own version of the religion.
ReplyDeleteJanae Spinato
The Protestant Reformation was not a unified movement of dissent against the Catholic Church. Though all reformers were dissatisfied with the conduct of the Catholic Church the Protestant reformers had opposing views on the way the Church should be conducted, mainly regarding the sale of indulgences, the divide of power in the Church, and the way of worship and there were no common fundamental beliefs among the reformers ergo this was not a united front.
ReplyDeleteCeline Montaudy
The Protestant Reformation was a step toward the unification of the Catholic Church. Factors such as the sale of indulgences, corruption, and the Protestants need of freedom of oppression from the Catholic Church.
ReplyDeletePavlina Schriel
The Protestant Reformation was not a unified movement of dissent against the Catholic Church, because it included several different branches- the main groups being led by Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli. Not only did different countries turn Protestant for different reasons, but it soon became that there was more tension within the different types of Protestants than with the Catholic Church. In addition, Luther didn’t initially spark the Reformation to separate from the Catholic Church, but rather to correct and reform the corruption and indulgences in the Church.
ReplyDeleteLily Allen
Which one of these are correct?
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