Why did the Protestant Reformation Happen?

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  @schwarzer0se463 · 5 years ago

  Fun fact: The german dialect used in Luthers bible translation became the standard german we know today, because everybody had to learn it in order to read the Bible (and everybody had a bible at home).

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• HI

  @HistoryOfRevolutions · 5 years ago

  Blaise Pascal once wrote:<br><br>&quot;There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous&quot;

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• MB

  @mbwakwst · 5 years ago

  I believe a very important detail was left out. Namely the local counts and princes in Germany were supposed to pay heavy dues to the Catholic Church (also because St. Peters was being built at the time) and they were very annoyed about this. Luther gave them the perfect excuse to stick it to the Pope, so when Luther kickstarted the Reform and defied the church, the local princes and counts gave him protection from the church with the very nice side effect of not having to pay the hefty dues anymore. Of course this led to war at some point so... I guess we all must live with our choices.

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  @UnclePengy · 3 years ago (edited)

  The reformation was beginning before Luther or Calvin came on the scene. Both the Waldensians (c. 1173) originating in Lyons and the Hussites in Bohemia (c. 1415) preceded them. The Hussites fought a war against Catholics and ended up winning that fight, and practiced their own faith in the Czech region for a couple of hundred years, until the Thirty Years War rolled through (now they are known as the Moravian church).

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• JT

  @JT7967-j3q · 4 years ago

  The presentation missed completely that &quot;reformation&quot; against church excesses started long before Luther. It was Wykliffe in England and Jan Hus in Bohemia (burn at stakes n 1415) who preached against church practices. Hus&apos; death was followed by wars between Hussite movement and &nbsp;Catholic powers and later continued with Czech Brothers (Jednota bratrska), who also printed a bible in Czech (bible Kralicka).

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• VA

  @vattghern257 · 5 years ago

  &quot;Polish-Lithuanian Empire&quot;<br>So here is a like&quot; from some Polish man.<br>Keep going

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  @theressamurphy2996 · 4 years ago

  My ancestors were crucified for their religious beliefs. They were Protestants from Bavaria, Germany. My family sailed &nbsp;to the east coast in the early 1600&apos;s of America and settled in Virginia

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• AF

  @afroditakatmeridu4109 · 1 year ago

  Didn&apos;t you hear of Jan Hus.......he was learning and teaching the theorist&apos;s John Wycliffe ideas and almost immediately after his death in 1415....Bohemia started its reformation......over 100 of years later came Germany and all the others..... <br>It&apos;s good to have full information of something so historically important.

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• SI

  @simonedaniek9878 · 4 years ago (edited)

  You may have mentioned Jan Hus &nbsp;of Bohemia and the Hussites who came a 100 years earlier and already protested the selling of indulgences, translating the Bible into Czech and the Bible as the authority. They formed armies and successfully fought the Catholic Crusaders called upon the land. Luther actually took many of his ideas from Jan Hus. It was a very important prerequisite to the Reformation already weakening the church by the time Luther nailed his thesis. Check it out.

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• ZA

  @zalacainbilbao · 5 years ago

  There was also the Hussite movement in and around what is today Czechia.

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• VO

  @Volnas97 · 5 years ago (edited)

  What about Husittes? Why does everyone forget Husittes? They had several crussades sent against them. Even Joan of Arc wanted to lead one against them. Or John Wycliffe, who inspired them all?

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• JO

  @jonbold · 2 years ago

  If you read the Gospels carefully and analytically, it is easy to see how far the churches have run off the rails.

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