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Russell said that the Enlightenment was ultimately born out of the Protestant reaction against the Catholic Counter-Reformation and that philosophical views such as affinity for democracy against monarchy originated among 16th-century Protestants to justify their desire to break away from the Catholic Church.
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages, often from around the year 1500, like the Reformation in Germany giving rise to Protestantism.
The book is an analysis of the religious, economic, cultural and political history of Europe during the period of the Reformation.He examines the history of the period through the interrelationships between different forces in Europe at the time, such as the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Papacy, reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer and Zwingli, and explores the ...
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... in Swedish press and about the Catholics' situation in Sweden during and after the Reformation. ... of Enlightenment ...
On the Road to Vatican II. German Catholic Enlightenment and Reform of the Church. Augsburg: Fortress Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5064-0898-9; The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History of a Global Movement. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-091228-4. Die katholische Aufklärung. Weltgeschichte einer Reformbewegung.
In the Reformation and Counter-Reformation eras, Europe was a "persecuting society" which did not tolerate religious minorities or atheism. [4] Even in France, where the Edict of Nantes had been issued in 1598, then revoked in 1685, there was very little support for religious toleration at the beginning of the eighteenth century. [5]
The Corpus Reformatorum (Corp. Ref., Cor. Ref., C.R., CR) ( Halle (Saale), 1834 sqq.), is the general Latin title given to a large collection of Reformation writings. This collection, which runs to 101 volumes, contains reprints of the collected works of John Calvin , Philip Melanchthon , and Huldrych Zwingli , three of the leading Protestant ...