The Reformation

Date Submitted: 12/20/2004 08:23:59
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 3 pages (765 words)
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…The religious civil war ended with the religious Peace of Augsburg in 1555. Its conditions provided that each of the rulers of the German states, choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism and enforce the chosen faith upon the ruler's subjects. Lutheranism finally gained the official recognition it had deserved, and the ancient theory of the religious unity of a single Christian community in Western Europe under the absolute power of the pope was then destroyed. 902 WORDS!!!
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