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Monks of the West Pt2: Abolition of Monasticism
By the on one occasion Martin Luther was formally excommunicated in 1521, monasticism as we would most commonly recognize it had been around for over 1200 years. In his at adult life, Luther felt called to the monastic life and joined a friary where he delved into Churchgoing life and study. Unfortunately, he was not suited for this Religious life and amidst his own spiritual frustration and discontentment with the Roman Inclusive Church, challenged the hierarchy with his 95 theses. When he was eventually excommunicated for pointing out the obvious corruption of the Wide Church, his theology and teachings became distinctly anti-Catholic. One of his major condemnations was of monasticism, and this targeted concentrate would shape the movement and spirituality for all Protestants to follow.
Let us take a brief moment, however, to address the major concerns that Luther had. First and primarily, he was appalled by the corruption of the Catholic clergy, specifically the selling of indulgences. When you have a religion whose authority rests in a special minority, it does not come as a surprise that his solution was to hand that authority to the majority (provided they were male), and thus his moment on the universal priesthood. He also had a problem with the texts used for the Bible. Though few Protestants know it, Luther tried to scrap out the Book of Revelation. He also set aside the texts that we now call the Apocrypha. As far as the Bible was concerned, he believed it should be available for all, so he translated it into German himself while in hiding.
Pertaining most importantly to our deliberation here, he also had a problem with the Religious Orders. Unfortunately, his reasons for condemning the Orders were not singular, there were several at least. For one, he was drawing from his own poor episode as a friar. As a practicing contemplative, I would like to point out that there are as many paths to contemplative experience as there are people. Much to his discredit, Luther should have sought a new route than the friary of which he was a part. In the end, he was projecting his own inner turmoil on the system that he was expecting to fix his problems. So his answer to that failure was to blame the system completely for it and abolish it rather than trying to fix it. Granted, towards the end of his life, Luther regretted that severe action, but by then the damage was done and the Protestant Reformation would continue on without the plenitude of that spiritual heritage.
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How did the creation of the Church of England/Protestant Reformation strengthen Henry VIII as a ruler?
I advised of the cause of these things, but what was the effect on Henry VIII as a ruler?
He could no longer be threatened with ex-communication and he did not extremity to worry about his enemies asking for the Pope's help, which would have threatened his power base.
However, the effects of his Reformation were not from head to toe positive in terms of his position since those Catholics who were unhappy with a fundamental change in the religion of England, would have been compelled to take action against him, as seen through many of the next rebellions such as the Pilgrimage of Grace, Wyatt's rebellion etc.
What were the causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation in England?
The big id was Henry VIII.
There are records of non-catholic Christians living in Wales and England long before the Reformation, but they were persecuted and forced to whip.
Henry's decision to break away for his own reasons was the biggest cause of the reformation in England.
The effects were gigantic. England stepped out as a prodigious player in history because of it. They were involved in a number of wars that were (at least partially) religious based. Those wars built up their military observation and prestige.
Protestant Reformation?
I impecuniousness a few quick facts about the Protestant Reformation in England and Mary I reign and murders. Please help.
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When Fundamentalists survey the writings of the "Reformers" (or founders of their particular sect) on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, they will find that the "Reformers" accepted almost every pre-eminent Marian doctrine and considered these doctrines to be both scriptural and fundamental to the historic Christian Faith.
Martin Luther:
Mary the Natural of God
Throughout his life Luther maintained without change the historic Christian affirmation that Mary was the Mother of God:
"She is rightly called not only the indulge of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God."
Perpetual Virginity
Again throughout his human being Luther held that Mary's perpetual virginity was an article of faith for all Christians - and interpreted Galatians 4:4 to refer to that Christ was "born of a woman" alone.
"It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Swagger and still a Virgin."
The Immaculate Conception
Yet again the Immaculate Conception was a doctrine Luther defended to his death (as confirmed by Lutheran scholars like Arthur Piepkorn). Like Augustine, Luther saw an unbreakable in between Mary's divine maternity, perpetual virginity and Immaculate Conception. Although his formulation of the doctrine of the Faultless Conception was not clear-cut, he held that her soul was devoid of sin from the beginning:
"But the other conception, namely the infusion of the soul, it is piously and suitably believed, was without any sin, so that while the vivacity was being infused, she would at the same time be cleansed from original sin and adorned with the gifts of God to receive the holy soul thus infused. And thus, in the very jiffy in which she began to live, she was without all sin..."
Assumption
Although he did not make it an article of faith, Luther said of the teaching of the Assumption:
"There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know."
Honor to Mary
Undeterred by his unremitting criticism of the traditional doctrines of Marian mediation and intercession, to the end Luther continued to proclaim that Mary should be honored. He made it a moment to preach on her feast days.
"The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart."
"Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the sinless Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing." Luther made this assertion in his last sermon at Wittenberg in January 1546.
John Calvin: It has been said that John Calvin belonged to the second institution of the Reformers and certainly his theology of double predestination governed his views on Marian and all other Christian doctrine . Although Calvin was not as prolific in his praise of Mary as Martin Luther he did not deny her perpetual virginity. The term he used most commonly in referring to Mary was "Untainted Virgin".
"Elizabeth called Mary Mother of the Lord, because the unity of the person in the two natures of Christ was such that she could have said that the earthly man engendered in the womb of Mary was at the same time the eternal God."
"Helvidius has shown himself too ignorant, in saying that Mary had several sons, because allude to is made in some passages of the brothers of Christ." Calvin translated "brothers" in this context to miserly cousins or relatives.
"It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor."
"To this day we cannot benefit the blessing brought to us in Christ without thinking at the same time of that which God gave as adornment and honour to Mary, in willing her to be the mother of his only-begotten Son."
Ulrich Zwingli:
"It was given to her what belongs to no organism, that in the flesh she should bring forth the Son of God."
"I firmly believe that Mary, according to the words of the certainty as a pure Virgin brought forth for us the Son of God and in childbirth and after childbirth forever remained a pure, intact Virgin." Zwingli acquainted with Exodus 4:22 to defend the doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity.
"I esteem immensely the Mummy of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary."
"Christ ... was born of a most undefiled Virgin."
"It was apt that such a holy Son should have a holy Mother."
"The more the honor and love of Christ increases among men, so much the esteem and honor acknowledged to Mary should grow."
We might wonder why the Marian affirmations of the Reformers did not survive in the teaching of their heirs - especially the Fundamentalists. This break with the past did not come through any new discovery or revelation. The Reformers themselves (see above) took a benign even positive perspective of Marian doctrine - although they did reject Marian mediation because of their rejection of all human mediation. Moreover, while there were some excesses in popular Marian devotedness, Marian doctrine as taught in the pre-Reformation era drew its inspiration from the witness of Scripture and was rooted in Christology. The real discuss with for the break with the past must be attributed to the iconoclastic passion of the followers of the Reformation and the consequences of some Reformation principles. Even more influential in the break with Mary was the ascendancy of the Enlightenment Era which essentially questioned or denied the mysteries of faith.
Unfortunately the Marian teachings and preachings of the Reformers have been "covered up" by their most zealous followers - with damaging theological and everyday consequences. This "cover-up" can be detected even in Chosen by God: Mary in Evangelical Perspective, an Evangelical critique of Mariology. One of the contributors admits that "Most unbelievable to modern Protestants is the Reformers' almost universal acceptance of Mary's continuing virginity, and their widespread aversion to declare Mary a sinner". He then asks if it is "a favourable providence" that kept these Marian teachings of the Reformers from being "transmitted to the Protestant churches"!
What is interpreted as "Discretion" by a Marian critic may legitimately be interpreted as a force of a very different kind by a Christian who has recognized the r of Mary in God’s plan.
please give me a site that will tell me how monks were punished in england during the protestant reformation?
How did the Protestant reformation affect Shakespeare's longest play, Hamlet?
I nothing but need to know how it affected the play, and whether the play makes references to the Protestant reformation that went on in England.
Thanks.
Protestants believed that by "Assurance Alone" people would be saved, whereas, before the Protestant reformation, Catholics followed the "Chain of Beling". Within this chain, everyone had their r and were not able to step out of this role. If you were born a peasent, you would remain a peasant. To step outside of that role, would be to question God's order for you. In order to speak to God, you had to go up the chain to the top, where he was. I think that the way that Hamlet takes everything in to his own hands throughout almost the entire play, shows that he isn't a all-embracing hero, but a protestant hero. It isn't until he says "what will be will be" to Horatio, that he is demonstrating that of a Catholic hero?? (I believe)
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