Five of the most violent moments of the Reformation.
Although Martin Luther's ideas were fundamentally conservative in respect to doctrine, the Protestant Reformation led to a revolutionary liberalization of sociopolitical institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. Luther believed that the path to reform was a conservative return to the roots of Christianity.Was Martin Luther a revolutionary? What exactly is “revolutionary”? Politically, it is a momentous event that within a short space of time overthrows an established order. Put crudely, it is a major upheaval which usually has important short and long term impacts.This article is about the monk who started the Reformation. For the activist, see Martin Luther King Jr. For other uses, see Martin Luther (disambiguation). Saxon priest, monk and theologian, seminal figure in Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther’s Revolution. Martin Luther: Renegade and. But Luther’s Reformation didn’t simply undermine the church’s particularly exploitative practices; it also envisioned a rift.All conclusive evidence supports that Martin Luther, as far as issues of the 95 Theses are concerned, was both a Reformer and a Revolutionary. In order to assess the value of the two words, Reformer and Revolutionary, one must accurately understand the meaning of each.
So Luther was not a lone revolutionary but one of a trio at least of late medieval dissenters. He shared insights with other dissident medieval intellectuals. The Englishman, William of Occam (1270-1343), whose works Luther read at university, wrote that popes and councils of the church could make mistakes: a disturbing thought that Luther echoed in a public debate at Leipzig in 1519.
