Modern European History: The Reformation
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I believe the statement "The reformation was a rejection of the
secular spirit of the Italian Renaissance" is false because in the long
term of European history, the reformation was able to create a more
humanistic view of the world than that of the Renaissance humanism. There
are three major cha ....
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.... salvation by faith alone. This
first division of the church in to Protestant caused many more religious
groups to form on each interpretation of the bible.
The next important long-term change, Capitalism stemmed from Calvinism.
Calvinism was a religious movement which believed in the individuals
responsibility to reorganize society according to "God's plan". Max Weber,
the famous German sociologist, in his study The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism, argued that these i ....
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