Chapter 15 Blog

The early modern era created two different cultural trends: 1) the spread of Christianity to Asians, Africans, and Native Americas and 2) scientific emergence which gave a different view of religion; resulting in challenging Western Christianity globally. The scientific revolution created a 'new and competing' worldwide view that for some people turned into their new religion. In 1500, the globalization of Christianity expanded from Spain to England, to Russia, and through communities like Egypt, Ethiopia, south India, and Central Asia. This expansion divided the Roman Catholics of Western & Central Europe and Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe & Russia. For the following one thousand years, this religion became the cultural and organizational backbone of the Western European civilization, but was crushed when the priest, Martin Luther, posted a document on the church doors in Wittenburg known as the, Ninety-Five Theses. The new understanding of salvation declared that it doesn't matter what you do or how you do it, faith came first.

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