To begin with, reformation of the Catholic church started in fifteenth century by the following people who were taken as the forerunners ;John Huss of Bohemia, John WY cliff of England, Girolomo of Italy and Desiderius Erasmas. ... Wycliffe was also posthumously condemned as heretic and his corpse was exhumed and burned in 1428.Thereafter; their suggestions for reformation were then taken up by other reformers who introduced revolutionary in the church like Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, Martin Bucer and Phillip Melanchthon. Secondly, although there had significant earlier att...

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All Puritans in that era were not completely in approving union with the decisions of a few men, named Martin Luther and John Calvin. ... (http://www.wncc.edu) Martin Luther and John Calvin were responsible for initiating the revolt against Christian ideals. John Calvin's principles were adopted from Luther's and later were improved to his own ethics. ... (http://www.britannica.com) Most of them, which are Calvinist, pursued the teachings and declaration of John Calvin's "profound" ideas. ...

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The council accepted Gregory XII's resignation, deposed John XXIII, ignored the claim of Benedict XIII, and placed Pope Martin on the papal throne. ... John Wycliffe of Yorkshire was one of those men paving the way. ... Martin was a man suited for the fight however. ... It is here that Martin Luther delivers his theology of the cross. ... When Martin Luther was summoned before Cardinal Cajetan it was solely ...

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Martin Luther, John Calvin (1509- 1564), Anabaptist and Anglicans were at the forefront of the reformation struggles against the Roman Catholic church and it's leaders. Martin Luther (1483- 1546) and other resented how the roman clergy lived their lives and spent riches on housing and churches (St Peters). ... John Calvin came after Martin Luther and wanted a strict adherence to reforms he instituted in the church. ...

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These enraged Martin. ... Pope Leo X then threatened Martin with excommunication. ... Martin was not afraid of this, though. ... When the Bull finally made it to Martin, Pope Leo had died, and Martin was living in the House of Wettin, under the protection of Frederick the Wise. ... Then, Martin made the journey to Rome once again. ...

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As the result of a personal religious struggle, a German Augustinian friar, Martin Luther, launched the Protestant reformation of the sixteenth century. Luther's wise and kindly confessor, John Stupitz, directed him to the study of St. ... Martin Luther was lucky in the sense that he happened to be at the right place at the right time. ... Martin Luther was a religious radical in the sense that his main goal was to reform the church, and he was going to use any means necessary to accomplish his goal. ...

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This essay is concerned with Martin Luther (1483-1546), and his concept of Christianity. ... Martin Luther did not merely teach different doctrines; others had done that also, such as Wyclif. ... The only man who really made a breakthrough, and whose breakthrough has transformed the surface of the earth, was Martin Luther. . . . ... This accomplishment amounts to the establishment of another religion known as Protestantism, a faith that was generated from the Reformation, with its advocates such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Knox. ... This is the type of change the Re...

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The preparations of the movement were long and there had been earlier calls for reform, for example, by John Wyclif and John Huss. ... The Reformation began when Martin Luther, a monk, posted his 95 theses on the church at Wittinberg on October 31, 1517. ... The second generation of reformists were scholars like Huldreich Zwingli from Zurich, and John Calvin from Geneva. ... The principals of Zwingli spread to other parts of Europe, and to the hands of John Calvin referred to as the "greatest reformer." ... In 1547, the then victorious Charles V stood at the grave of Martin Luther, and said " ...

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Another source of revenue, papal indulgences, would lead to the reformer Martin Luther beginning his campaign against the Latin church. ... Martin Luther saw this and wanted changes. ... By the 1600's they were made up of several churches led by reformers like Martin Luther and John Wiclif. ...

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The Reformation officially began in 1517 when Martin Luther challenged the Roman Church on the matter of Indulgences. ... Men such as John Wycliffe, John Huss, and Gerolamo Savonarola spoke out against the papacy, confession, purgatory, pilgrimages, worship of saints, relics, etc. ... Some famous men who belonged to this group were John of Wessel, Erasmus and Thomas Kempis. ... For all practical purposes Martin Luther stabilized the German language. ...

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Reformers such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli strived for change in the Church because it was too focused on worldly possessions and became too commercialized. The Reformation was started by Martin Luther, who opposed the Church's sale of indulgences by writing the Ninety-Five Theses. ... Martin Luther asserts that "every prince, nobleman and city should boldly forbid their subjects to pay the annates to Rome and abolish then entirely.... However, as the Protestant Reformation began, Martin Luther printed the Bible in German in 1522 and completely changed the rol...

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The Reformation brought a time of religious upheaval and confusion. The perplexity of the reform consists of many wars between peasants, townsfolk, and the Roman Catholic Church. According to the pre-Reformation Roman Catholic Church, it was believed that all human beings are born into a state o...

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