The Roles of Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli & John Calvin

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This essay discusses how Martin Luther diverged theologically from the Catholic Church, the ways in which Zwingli's and Calvin's theology differed from Luther's, and the long terms effects of the Protestant Reformation movement on European politics and society. Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin were the central figures in the Protestant Reform Movement of the 16th century. Since Luther had initiated the process of religious reform and taken a bold stand against the hitherto all-powerful Roman Church, he is widely considered to be one of the most crucial figures in modern Western history with his influence extending beyond religion into politics, economics, and education.
Zwingli and Calvin also played significant roles in simplifying the Christian theology and in consolidating the Protestant Reform movement in Europe, though they had their theological differences with Luther.

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"The Roman Catholic Church and the papacy based in Rome had enjoyed an enormous amount of power in Europe and the rest of Western civilization for over a thousand years until a young German monk named Martin Luther (1483-1546) sparked off the Reformation movement of the 16th century in 1517."

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