Europe Age of Reformation

Make your argument and your writing clear and to be sure that you support your claims with evidence from our readings, discussion, or from the lectures. Use a parenthetical reference form, i.e.: (Lindberg, p. 22) . You need not use any outside sources for this paper. Remember: Use names and dates, and DON’T DESCRIBE; ANALYZE-X

The Christianity of medieval Europe was quite different from the one Luther ended up refashioning.

The vast difference could be summed up in the following way: for Luther “salvation is no longer the goal of life but rather its foundation.”

Explain: what this passage means to someone who does not know what the Reformation is. Please use ample examples from your reading to show how this contrast can be understood. How did Luther make these differences clear?

Can ONLY use the following Readings:

1. The European Reformations ISBN: 9781119640745: Lindberg, Chapter 1-7 & 10 & 12. –> unable to attach
2. Erasmus, On the Free Will. –> ATTACHED
3. Luther On the Enslaved Will. –> ATTACHED

ATTACHED: please be carful not all the reading attached under the file “Reformation Europe reads.pdf” are useful, these first pages are the ONLY ones listed above all other are not allowed to be used on the paper.

might be the only pages:

Erasmus, On Free Will 1~6

Luther, On the Enslaved Will 7~16