Western Civilization
The paper discusses Reformations in western European countries. Particularly, the paper is focused on the Catholic Reformation, the German Reformation, the English Reformation, the Genevan Reformation and the Swiss Reformation. At the first part of the paper basic similarities between the Reformations are analyzed while in the second part the emphasis is on principal differences between them.
Introduction
The development of western civilization was marked by several turning points that had Asus F5 F5Z купить changed the history completely. Basically, these were some revolutionary events and Reformation was one of such events. It is noteworthy that Reformation had started in different countries practically at the same period of time but independently and not as a solid revolution of traditional religious system dominating in different European countries. Very soon it overwhelmed practically all politically and culturally significant countries of Europe, particularly Spain, Germany, England, Switzerland.
Similarities of Reformations
Speaking about different Reformations, namely catholic, Genevan, German, English, and Swiss, it is necessary to point out that practically all of them had certain similarities and differences. At the first part of the paper the basic similarities will be discussed.
So, probably the main similarity of all the Reformations listed above is the main, or if it is possible to say here, the strategic cause of these Reformation. Before Reformations, Europe represented a solid organism in which Roman Catholic Church played a dominant Asus M51 M51Sr купить role in religious sphere as well as to a significant extent in political and economical spheres. Naturally, the ruling elites of western European countries could not make up with such a situation and tended to weaken the role of Rome in national affairs both within countries and on the international arena.
At the same time average people could not bear the situation either. It was obvious that the Roman Catholic Church was in decay. People clearly understood that priests and high Catholic Church’s hierarchy is as sinful as other ordinary people. Abuse became a normal thing and “greed, sex, abuse of power were only some of these abuses.” (Spielvogel 1997:78). In such circumstances the practice of selling indulgences (papers that were temporal pardons of sins) invented by the Catholic church was treated as an extreme hypocrisy,
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