Reformation movement
How did martin luther start the protestant reformation?
What caused the protestant reformation.
Dating the Reformation
Historians usually date the start of the Protestant Reformation to the publication of Martin Luther’s “95 Theses.” Its ending can be placed anywhere from the Peace of Augsburg, which allowed for the coexistence of Catholicism and Lutheranism in Germany, to the Treaty of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War.
The key ideas of the Reformation—a call to purify the church and a belief that the Bible, not tradition, should be the sole source of spiritual authority—were not themselves novel. However, Luther and the other reformers became the first to skillfully use the power of the printing press to give their ideas a wide audience.
Did you know? No reformer was more adept than Martin Luther at using the power of the press to spread his ideas.
Between and , Luther published more works than the next 17 most prolific reformers combined.
The Reformation: Germany and Lutheranism
Martin Luther () was an Augustinian monk and university lecturer in Witt