COMS 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Swabia, Protestant Reformation, Indulgence

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 381
• Professor: Annie Rudd

Document Summary

Enormous cultural changes that brought changes to the perception of the churches authoritative presence. As scientific thought begins to undermine the idea of the creation of the church, the church is challenged as people begin to question the validity of the bible. Instead of literal adoptions of learning applied to the bible, people begin to interpret the bible in different ways. This protestatio(cid:374) of ideas (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ues i(cid:374) (cid:449)hat is (cid:272)alled (cid:862)the e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Where there is a widespread rejection of the idea of authoritative rule and tyranny. People begin to adopt the idea of personal choice and education rather than the outright acceptance of dharma. The reformation began as a set of questions that worked to challenge the idea of paying their way out of sin (indulgences) Soon, a series of published works began to come up and question the work of the catholic church.