USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church’s teachings starting in 1517. The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Counter-Reformation largely grew as a response to the Protestant Reformation and was a movement of reform within the Roman Catholic Church.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Renaissance movement in northern Europe led to the Reformation of the 1500s. The Northern Renaissance encouraged individualism and scholarship as well as a devotion to the bible.

Detailed explanation-4: -The reformers rejected the authority of the pope as well as many of the principles and practices of Catholicism of that time. The essential tenets of the Reformation are that the Bible is the sole authority for all matters of faith and conduct and that salvation is by God’s grace and by faith in Jesus Christ.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Catholic Reformation was a reform movement that took place within the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.