Chapter 16
“The Reformation began in 1517 when a German priest, Martin Luther, Publicly invited debate about various abuses within the Roman Catholic Church by posting a document, known as the Ninety-five theses, on the door of a church in Wittenberg. In itself, this was nothing new, for many people were critical of the luxurious life of the popes, the corruption and immorality of some clergy, the Church’s selling of indulgences, and other aspects of church life and practice.” This was huge aspect of this time, so many branches of Catholicism was evolved from this. It was looked at negatively at first but then grew on people and everyone looked at these ideas with there own views and began to sway away from traditional Catholic Church. This is when Lutheran, Christian, LDS etc… were created.
All of this challenged the authority of the Church and called into question the special position of the clerical hierarchy and of the pope in particular. In sixteenth-century Europe, this was the stuff of revolution. This created the new revolution and changed so many lives.
The Chinese encounter with Christianity was very different from that of Native Americans in Spain’s New World Empire. At no point was china ‘s political independence or cultural integrity threatened by the handful of European missionaries and traders operating in the country.
Science was used to legitimize racial and gender inequalities, by defining people of color and women as inferior by nature. When married to the technological innovations of the Industrial Revolution, Science fostered both the marvels of modern production and the horrors of modern means of destruction.
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