Italian Renissance and the Reformation

Please imagine the disease and war that lasted decades. Imagine God seems silent despite the suffering of the world. How do you respond to becoming a society? For Europeans, the answer is Renaissance. Europe has been a very difficult place for centuries. More than two-thirds of the population died due to the deaths of black people, personnel expenses soared, sorrow became worse. In the Catholic Church, a large division between the sides of the church produced questions about faith and religious authority.

As Christians respond to the large divide scandal and are more sensitive to religious abuse, the call for reform of the Church is characteristic of the 15th century. Italian religious reformer, Girolamo Savonarola, severely criticized the secularity of his modern pope Alexander VI. The movement of the so-called astronomical observatory in the defamation order tried to remind members of a more severe life, and humanitarian like Desiderius Erasmus tried to create countless speculative alternatives to academic theology . Although these efforts are sincere, they have not been adjusted for a long time and have not had a major impact on the entire organization.

By the end of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century Italian cultural movements, known as Renaissance, spread to the northern European towns, universities and the royal family. Contrary to the "citizen humanism" of Italian urban countries that started in the Renaissance period, the hero of the northern Renaissance often thinks from the point of view of the kingdom government, emphasizing the "Christian humanism" related to religious sentences and problems It is. Northern humanities such as John Colet (d.1519), Jacques Lefèvred 'Etaples (d.1536), "Humanitarian Prince" Rotterdam Erasmus (1466-1536) emphasize the importance of moral life rather than understanding theology doing. Delicate and complicated religious ceremonies. Together with the recognition of humanistic classical history, they often emphasize the importance of the Bible and imitate and restore the early Christian community as a classical model.