RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Indulgence, Omnipotence, Calvinism
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There are 3 reformations: magisterial, radical, counter reformation (catholic response to the protestant reformation) What kinds of technology was present at the time and how does the technology facilitate the success of luther. Printing press invaluable for luther to get his ideas across to other people. The press is mightier than the pen the pen is mightier than the sword : knowledge is more powerful than physical force. Early christianity different gospels, different communities but eventually by the 4th century it gets funneled down to a relatively consistent document . Eventually you have the east and the west split by the. When he"s talking about freedom and devotion, he"s talking about freedom from certain things/people freedom from the people of authority, freedom from the catholic church. When he"s saying subject to all, he means still being subject to some christian communities just not the institutionalized, bureaucratic one that he is at the time reacting to.
