The Disintegration of Christianity: Catholicism and Protestantism

This paper explores cultural conflicts that marked the disintegration of Christianity under the challenges of various Reformation movements. The protestant reformation proposed a new age based on the liberation of conscience and emancipation from tradition. It would cause unprecedented social turmoi...

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Autor: Wydra, Harald
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/145770
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/145770
https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2023.i52.2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cultural Models
Catholicism
Reformation movements
Protestantism
Modelos culturales
Catolicismo
Movimientos de Reforma
Protestantismo
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Sumario:This paper explores cultural conflicts that marked the disintegration of Christianity under the challenges of various Reformation movements. The protestant reformation proposed a new age based on the liberation of conscience and emancipation from tradition. It would cause unprecedented social turmoil, where new religious freedoms required protection by means of secular coercion. The subsequent confessionalisation of territories proliferated new cultural models with the pretension to toleration but also increased the likelihood of civil war. Lastly, Reformation movements would create quasi-religious ideologies of chosen nations based on world-immanent perceptions of time. This essay ends with a reflection on the ambivalence of the Christian foundations for the collectivist and individualist radicalism of secular movements.