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Staring out from the page, his perfectly proportioned, toned body emanates the perfection of God’s image: man. Leonardo da Vinci’s The Vitruvian Man (1490) epitomized Renaissance Humanism and the rejection of the Gothic tradition of placing man in the shadows of God, positioning the white, able-bodied, European man at the centre of the universe, at the center of God’s universe. The human became a microcosm for the Macrocosm: mans’ proportions mirrored the mathematical perfection of the cosmos, nature, and time....
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In Max Weber’s article ‘Disenchantment, Enchantment, and Re-Enchantment’ he talks about the link between Protestantism and the elimination of magical and supernatural forces in the world. He believed that, along with Enlightenment, the Reformation was a powerful catalyst of a great historic process, he called ‘the disenchantment of the world’, where the magic withers away, leaving only a disenchanted nature or feeling behind. Weber argues that the world became more rationalized, as there was a decline in magic and ritual....
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Martin Luther’s rise in popularity began when he nailed his ‘Ninety-Five Theses’ to the door of the Wittenberg Church on October 31, 1517. Luther aimed to show how corrupt the Catholic Church had become and in a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, he wrote: “Works of piety and love are infinitely better than indulgences, and yet these are not preached with such ceremony or such zeal; nay, for the sake of preaching the indulgences they are kept quiet, though...
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The European Reformation of the 16th century was a massive part of European history, it spread through everywhere in Europe and everybody got involved in it. It rooted back to the 1400’s when there was a huge struggle between the empire and the papacy. There were also huge problems and deep-rooted envy between the German king and the Roman Pope. “German Humanists of the 1470’s and 1480’s identified themselves as nationalists, opposed to Italy and the Pope. This was because...
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Episcopal Bishop Mark Dyer has observed that the only way to understand what is currently happening to us as twenty-first-century Christians is to realize that the church feels compelled to have a massive shakeup about every five hundred years. He describes this shakeup as a ‘rummage sale’. Five hundred years back from our 21st century places us in the 16th century and what is now being called the Great Reformation. Theologian Tickle names this 21st-century rummage sale as the ‘Great...
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