HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Arun Shourie, John Calvin, Ninety-Five Theses
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Sacred spaces: religious buildings and early modern connections. Tradition of heretics being burned at the stake. By burning the art, this was a way to reverse the act. John calvin went even further, by declaring, god forbade the making of any images representing him. No stained glass/no images decorative austerity. People sitting all together, facing different ways. Preacher was placed very high in his pulpit. Catholic churches became more decorative as counter-reformation to protestant austerity. The catholic faith had an air of mystery the priest, bishops, etc. had to have this air of mystery so that laypeople would believe that they would need their help to get into heaven. Their church was a religious temple; god lived there. The protestant faith the church was supposed to be where everyone came together to exercise relationship to god. Luther and the protestant reformation (1485 1546); a german monk. He posted his 95 theses in 1517, on the church door in wittenberg.
