Negative Effects Of The Protestant Reformation

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Martin Luther sparked the Reformation in 1517 by nailing his “95 Theses” on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany; it listed his concerns with the practices of the Catholic Church. The Church responded to Luther by opening the Council of Trent, this was called the Counter-Reformation. Through the Protestant Reformation, numerous denominations emerged, including Lutheranism, and Calvinism. A positive of the Protestant Reformation was the Bible was translated into the vernacular which meant the people outside the Church could have a connection with God that wasn’t hindered by the Catholic Church. A negative side of the Protestant Reformation is that there was a lot of violence between the Catholics and Protestants. Another

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