The Protest Reformation: A Religious Movement

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Protest Reformation

The reformation was a religious movement of the 1500’s that gave rise to Protestantism and was responsible for widespread changes in education (Zacharias 18). The first reformation was an epochal moment in the history of the western world and eventually by the extension of the rest of the world (Zacharias 18). A reformation not only for the Catholics but for the entire world, Christianity as a whole is both growing and rotating in ways that observers in the west tend not see (Zacharias 18). Although the early church had allowed the education of all social classes and ethnic backgrounds broad are religious education and had deteriorated by the time the German monk (Zacharias 18). The original reformation was far more than
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Protestants also considered this arrangement superstitious.
In Catholicism, the church was arranged so that the religious ceremonies of that communion took place in a special holy space (Forgend 78). The altar was located at the east end of the church away from the parishioners, and was separated from them by a screen (Forgend 78). In Elizabethan church the elaborate altar was exchanged for a simple communion table which was placed in the center of the church, right in front of the congregation without any separation (Forgend 78). Pews were arranged in the front of the seating area, and those could be rented by the ones who could afford them while others sat on stools. Seating was sometimes a contentious issue considered a
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Upon his death in 1547 his son came to the throne as Edward IV and was still underage and his reign was dominated by his guardians who promoted protestant reformation in the English church (Forgend 2). The throne was passed to his eldest half-sister Mary, she was raised in a devout Catholic Church (Forgend 2). Mary English protestant believed that the Church of England needed to go further along the path of reform, and she brought England back into her Catholic church (Forgend 29). They objected to even the limited degree of ritual retained in the Netherlands and Geneva. Some even felt that bishops should be abolished since their office was not based on scriptural authority (Forgend 29). Things such as people favored a Presbyterian Church government, they were run by assemblies of clergy and godly laymen (Forgend