RELIGST 3B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Protestantism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3B03
• Professor: P Widdicombe

Document Summary

Initiated the revolution in the church: known as the reformation, reformations take what is and tries to improve it, revolution takes what is and tries to replace it. Depending on your stance, this can be viewed as a reformation or a revolution. This produces the "western church: n/s of western europe was governed by the holy roman empire. Luther saw the church as corrupted morally and theologically: wanted to oust this, he would not accept the label of revolutionary because he viewed his actions as attempting to bring the church back into the alignment of christianity. Asking the church to see continuity in where it lies. Roman catholic church was not called this until after this reformation: this institution disagreed with him. It was fundamentally important to point out that he was not departing from the truth but trying to bring the church back in this alignment.