Reformation of Churches in France



Reformation of Churches in France

Introduction

I have selected the era of the reformation of the churches in France during the years, 1565-1620. I am a 20 years old man living in France at the start of the Reformation. My family was catholic and we were facing a lot of problems. Our neighborhood consists of fellow Catholics. I will narrate the reformation period. For understanding the reformation period in France, it is vital to get a grasp on the history. The Protestant Reformation marked its beginning in 1516, when Johann Tetzel, the Dominican priest and papal commissioner of tolerance, was sent by Pope Leo X sent to Germany to deal with 'tolerance' to lift the 'indulgences' to lift cash to rebuild St Peter's Basilica in Rome (Gray, 2003). Martin Luther composed in 1517 against the violation of academic debate indulgencies Catholic Church, which came to be the implementation of the famous 95 theses. Luther argued that the paper 95, the right of the pope to forgive sins. He finalized an exact copy 95 papers in the Wittenberg castle church was then converted from Germany to Latin America, and Europe's leading printing and distribution of the Protestant Reformation of the door.

Role Played by Me

My father is a clergyman and we live in a small village in France. Our neighbours include catholics and fellow clergyman. We unite in the evenings everyday and interact with each other. The problems of the village are dicussed and solved in such meetings. Apart from that, these gatherings are intimate and are casual. My family includes my father, mother, an elder brother and a four young sisters. As we live in a small village, everyone knows each other and care about each other.

Priests, especially, have been persecuted, but Mass was not allowed, so Catholics had to go without the sacraments and basically live a lie if they wanted to live at all, or at least not be jailed. The Protestant Reformation, by shutting down female convents within the movement, effectively closed off the option of a full-time religious role for Protestant women. Martin Luther himself taught that "the wife should stay at home and look after the affairs of the household as one who has been deprived of the ability of administering those affairs that are outside and concern the state…." John Calvin agreed that "the woman's place is in the home." The clergy could now be married, reducing illegitimate births although there is little if any evidence illegitimacy was mainly fueled by unmarried clergy (Greengrass, 1991). Women's voices in the Reformation were mostly quashed with their writings destroyed because of the edict in the Bible for women to be silent.

However, gradually during the revolutionary years the Reformed people were briefly, for the first time in their history, fully free to enjoy their church life. In 1802 Napoleon settled the framework in which the RCath Church, the Luth and Reformed churches were to live all through the 19th ...