The Protestant Reformation: Crash Course European History #6

Really useful video .Thank you Crash course and John Green for making this

The Martin Luther talking bit actually looked real this time.😂

Martin Luthers really got a habit of changing the world.

Love you John.

Lutheran hive make some noise

Ironic that there is prosperity gospel that makes indulgence a protestant comeback

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great

Charles iv rocking the Hapsburg jaw 😂

Great episode as always John! As a Catholic, I have long felt that the importance of the Reformation has often been overblown in historiography, especially here in the US where Protestantism has long been the dominant religious force. If anything the division between the Catholic/Orthodox church is more important, or the Arian Crisis. GK Chesterton wrote "One need not count the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant any more than a Catholic and a Pelagian". In other words, from a Catholic perspective the Lutheran crisis is no different than the Pelagian crisis, or the Arian crisis, or the Albigensian crisis. In all cases an individual or group of individuals (often among the clergy or religious) quibble with a particular Catholic doctrine enough to engage in a split from papal and magisterial authority. (For example, while the Lutherans wanted faith without works, the Pelagians wanted works without faith) The benefit of all these movements for the Church is that they not only help define & refine Church doctrine by offering challenges to it, but they often spring up in times when the Church has drifted from its Gospel message. In that way, they force those within the Church to reckon with abuses and sources of corruption and encourage internal reform. The Arian crisis gave us the Nicene Creed, the Albigensians prompted the creation of religious orders like the Dominicans and the Franciscans, and in the time of the Lutheran and Calvinist schisms the Jesuits and Catholic Reformation bloomed. I guess the only historical difference between the Protestant Reformation and these earlier heresies is its staying power and ability to spread quickly due to the political circumstances of the 16th century (princes willing to back it to get back at either the Pope or Holy Roman Emperor) and the new information technologies available. Either way, as strange as it is to say I can express some gratitude that in even these contentious times, good comes out of it. Much love to any Protestant brothers and sisters out there! Keep up the good work John and team!

The printing press. The original mass media. Luther Christian Libertarian? Contemporary relations are better than in the good old days. Ecumemenicism? 😎😇

Luther and Amish to Menonite to hettorite are from the same branch right? Different branches from this reformation? These REBBELS are not for me. I reject ALL OF THESE.

They did not LITERALLY call it the “Diet of Worms” as they neither wrote nor spoke in English.

Ahhh The good Christian church, the biggest pedo organization that has ever existed ever. I like the saying “all Christians go to hell...if they listen to the church.”

Maybe this is why im not religious

Is this the History's linustechtips?

Can we get a Crash Course Asian History?

I don’t read much fan fiction but the bible is an exception it’s so epic

"It all starts with Martin Luther"--well no. Several reformers came before Martin Luther. These include John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, and Girolamo Savonarola. Martin Luther was, however, the first one of these not to be burned as a heretic due to royal backing.

As a last side note: Back in school I attended religious education by the evangelic-lutheric (hope this makes sense) church (that is the most important branch of Protestant churches here in Germany AFAIK).
We were explained Luthers Theological view as follows:
God is free.
If you could force God to send you to heaven by committing only good deeds, then God in fact was not free.
Therefore, it cannot be that you are able to force God to send you to Heaven just by leading a "good" live.
( this is called "Luthers Rechtfertigungslehre" in German).
On the other hand, it is unimaginable that people who lived a "good" live are sent to hell.
Therefore, hell cannot exist and all people are sent to heaven.
I still remember my teacher when we discussed this, adding: "This of course is really weird, imagine arriving at heaven and having to shake hands with Hitler, whos also there - but this is how things roll"

What also astonishes me is the common depiction of Charles V:
Just as in 1415, he guaranteed safe travel to and from Worms for Luthers, but he actually stuck to it and did not sack Luther, as king Sigismund did with Jan Hus - albeit he could have argued just like Sigismund: Since Jan Hus was a heretic, oaths given to him were not binding - and Sigismund did not have to stick to it. Charles could have argued the same way, but did not.
Then, Charles captured many of his opponents, starting with the Landgraf of Thüringen, whom he actually captured twice, the second time after the Landgraf swore loyalty to Charles, but Charles released him again.
Charles also captured king Franz of France after Franz invaded Italy, and released him again, only to being invaded by Franz again.
The Protestant nobles, in order to weaken Charles, gave the imperial cities of Metz and Verdun to king Franz - which is nothing but High Treason, and Charles did not punish them.
Instead, he conducted the taking of Algier in order to free Christian slaves.
Charles also was the first (and up to my knowledge, the only) Emperor who abdicated and went into a monastery.
He truly seems to have been naive, trusting in the oath of people despite the fact that they were repeatedly broken, but a man of honesty, considering himself bound to defend Christianity, and not only tried to extend his power - unlike most of his opponents like Franz of France and the Prostestant nobles - who only sought to become more powerful.

One important point that is totally missed here is:
Luther sided with the nobility, and declaring that every nobel would replace the pope as the leader of the church in his territory.
This is an important point for 2 reasons:

1. It gave the nobels an opportunity to extend their power.
Protestantism would also enable the nobility to sack the vast possessions of the Catholic church.
Therefore, this was probably one major factor for Luther to actually succeed: There had been reformers before, but those were not supported by nobility and consequently failed - like Jan Hus, or Thomas Müntzer etc.

2. It contradicts Luthers claims that every person should be free to turn to believe or not, as he wrote in "Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen" , as he effectively only gave the nobility to choose.

Luther IMHO perhaps in the beginning wanted to reform the church, but he pretty much seems to having abandonded key elements of this reform in order to ensure support by the nobility.

To me, Luthers impact looks not as bright: He did not really reform that much - the common man was still not free to believe, let alone free in a materialistic sense (He actually proclaimed that the farmers would rebel against the order of the heavens if they wanted to change their situation and free themselves from being slaves to nobility), he also caused havoc for middle europe, the further decline of the power of the emperor, therefore enabling France to sack a lot of territory, and caused a long list of religious wars, without actually freeing the people in any way.

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I love the can of worms gag Stan played on John. That was so funny.

Meant for kindergarten.

The romance between Katherine and Martin Luther fascinates me to no end, would highly suggest researching it

The online media is best describing and making convos about games.

"Time to return to harmony.
SERAPHIC WING!"
Me: Cue the angelic chorus!


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John is trying so hard to talk slowly. Am I the only one who finds this weird?! I actually sped it up XD XD

The Catholic Church remained one. Martin Luther's church kept splitting

I'd like to be an atheist in the 1500s.

"Is bread and wine, bread and wine or is it Jesus Christ, or is both?"


"Pass me the wine please"

Good to get a 'German' focus on the Reformation; although 'Germany' didn't exist, the German speakers of the Holy Roman Empire dominated and the Empire + Papal States in some ways WERE 'Europe' (or Western Europe) with Spain and the British Isles on the periphery. From Hapsburgs through to the World Wars and the EU, Europe has always been about 'Germany's role. (OUTSIDE Europe, of course, it was Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Dutch/Belgians which built the colonial empires, leading to German's demand for a 'place in the sun' and devastating World Wars

This video was biased with some false information.

Does Hank seem depressed here?

The protection of Luther by the German princes is not an unanswerable problem at all. The princes did not want to pay taxes and give special powers to the church because that would weaken them in their own domain. Luther starts his reformation and low and behold the pope is not the vicar of Christ and the Papacy does not wield the power of God. Alas, the prices had the perfect excuse to ignore the pope, that excuse called Luther.

not holy, not Roman, and not an empire, Holy Roman Empire

Religion and gods. All made up and maintained by humans...

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who else notice the thing on his chin

HERESY!?
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Am I the only one who thinks he talking way to slowly?

Your channel is awesome! Thank you very much for doing this!

But there was no Germany in 1512

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Everyone in my class seems to hate it when they put these videos on, but they really aren't bad..? I mean, it's not like this is one of those educational rap parodies like Anderson put on last year... It's got good production quality, and aside from the face puppets, it's pleasing to the eye. Plus, Green is really well spoken and gets the information out in a comparatively easy to understand way.

Plz do one on eastern orthodoxy

Russia: I just hope both sides have fun