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Reformation


Reformation is a reform movement against the Roman Catholic Church. Martin Luther started the Reformation.

People who had spread the teachings of god were Martin Luther, William Tyndale, and Jhon Calvin.

Protestants were those who protested against the Roman Catholic Church.

Jesuits was a religious order created to serve the pop and the church.

Christian humanism was a blend of humanist and religious ideas.
 
The Catholic Reformation was thier effort to stop the spread of protestanism and to reform the Catholic Church from within.


Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses  in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo Xin 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor.