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A rebellion against Catholic authority that places scriptural interpretation in the hands of believers and proliferates Protestant sects.
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Reformation
A rebellion against Catholic authority that places scriptural interpretation in the hands of believers and proliferates Protestant sects.
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Industrial capitalism required several contingent religious and geopolitical revolutions rather than a simple technological law of history.
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Elizabeth's reign is described as stabilizing England by balancing Protestant sympathy with Catholic cooperation while resisting Catholic conspiracies.
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He dates the Protestant Reformation from Luther's 1517 publication of the 95 Theses to the 1648 Peace of Westphalia after the Thirty Years' War.
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The Reformation opens a Pandora's box because removing papal authority lets peasants, towns, and denominations claim God's will for radically different social orders.
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The Protestant Reformation won despite Catholic Europe's greater population and wealth because printing press, musket, and banknotes empowered literate believers, common soldiers, and abstract wealth.
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Jiang claims the Divine Comedy becomes a blueprint for the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Scientific Revolution because poetry enters memory and shapes the subconscious brain.
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Jiang claims The Divine Comedy creates a new mind for humanity and becomes an intellectual blueprint for the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Scientific Revolution.
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He describes the Reformation as a rebellion against concentrated Catholic power that shifted divine authority from priests and church hierarchy to each believer's interpretation of the Bible.
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"Same thing with the Cultural Revolution where the Cultural Revolution removed the old elite, the bureaucrats. So in the 1980s when China opened up,..."
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"...between the two. Okay? And the third thing the process of reformation, we discussed this, right? Where you now have anxiety created by this..."
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"And they needed to force themselves to believe they are the elect. Okay? And then, the age of exploration where the old world, Europe..."
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"...famous daughter called Queen Elizabeth. All right? So, because of the Reformation, there's a huge religious civil war going on between the Catholics and..."
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"...well as provide the evidence, okay? All right, so the Possum Reformation. All right, so the Possum Reformation. All right, so the Possum Reformation..."
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"...religious freedom to everyone in Europe. And this ends the Possum Reformation, okay? All right, so again, historians state the beginning of the Possum..."
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"...most extreme of the three, okay? All right, so the Protestant Reformation, it opens a kind of worms. It opens a Pandora's box. Because..."
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"These are people who wanted total equality and democracy and freedom in the world, because they believe that is the will of God, okay?..."
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"...right? So the thing that we should observe about the Protestant Reformation is that, first of all, it's extremely diverse, okay? There are lots..."
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"They believe in God, and Jesus is just the Messiah. He's just a prophet of God, okay? So they affirm the moral teachings of..."
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"...so let's now talk about why is it that the Protestant Reformation won out. Again, they were up against the Holy Roman Empire. They..."
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"Catholic Europe was wealthier and stronger, but they still won, okay? And the reason why they won is due to the invention of three..."
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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