Was protestantism inevitable due to the church refusal to reform?
>>18756867Once the Catholics started trying to suggest dark hell-spawned demons are children of God, the schisms became not only inevitable but mandatory.
>>18756867It was inevitable in that individuals within the Roman Catholic Church insisted upon treating Augustine's corpus like a third testament at times. Luther himself was made to read scripture with Augustine's commentary bolted on. In that sense, I think it was inevitable that someone would try to enforce a view of Augustine's specific theology as the only valid interpretation.
Nothing is inevitable, but Teutonic 'tism always made it a possible outcome.
>>18756867no, it was inevitable because the church was draining germany economically to build massive monuments
Some kind of major rebellion / schism was going to happen because of the regionalism within the Church. The North was largely ignored by the papacy on account of being poorer and more sparsely populated than the southern dioceses that dominated the college of cardinals. There simply wasn't enough oversight of what was going on up there. If not Luther and his followers, some other crank would've gathered enough of a following to split from the church, and it's very likely the German princes would have jumped on any opportunity to break from the Church's authority due to the regionalism I mentioned. Luther just happened to launch his protest at an opportune time.
>>1875687499% of people did not care one fart about the autistic objections Luther had with the Church. His broader implications of the decadence and non-scriptural basis for Catholic rites and practices is what made him popular. Most people could not even list 10 of his 95 theses despite being willing to take up arms against the Papacy under the nominal banner of his protest. People were really just sick of the Church and wanted it out of Germany.
