HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Many Catholics began to follow other Christian Faiths
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Many people left the church and no longer believed in God.
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Many Catholics began to follow Islam.
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Many merchants and nobles began to desire goods from the East.
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Detailed explanation-1: -One reason for the weakening of the Church was the humanism of the Renaissance. Humanists often were secular, or nonreligious, in their thinking, and they believed in free thought and questioned many accepted beliefs. Problems within the Church added to this spirit of questioning.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Protestant Reformation is alleged to have shaped major features of Western culture, including freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, the dignity of the individual, and political democracy.
Detailed explanation-4: -It led ultimately to the growth of individual liberty and democracy. The reformers preached the equality of man to follow his conscience and to attain salvation in his own way. This individual freedom from a religious point of view had its political repercussions too and led to the growth of democracy.