Chapter 16: THe Globalization of Christianity

1500- Christianity was mainly in Europe. There was 2 divisions in Christianity. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. The Protestant Reformation began in 1517. Where martin Luther posted the 95 Theses. Luther was one of many who criticized the Roman Catholic Church. He put forth a new understanding of salvation as coming through faith alone rather then depending on good works, with the Bible, not church teaching, as the source of religious authority. SOme of Luther's ideas gave a new religious legitimacy to the middle class, and commoners followed on to the new religious ideas as a tool for protest again the whole social order. Christianity had expanded overseas thanks to the Spaniards and Portuguese. It had spread through Asia and the Americas. The religion and culture in China is different than the Europeans. They believed in Buddhist, Confucianism, and Hindu. The enlightenment era and  scientific revolution ideas would eventually reach Europe. The enlightenment thinkers believed that the human body are the realistic depictions of art.