Absolutism- After the weakening patterns, Europe began a remarkable recovery that encompassed a revival of arts and letters, known as the Renaissance. Including a religious Renaissance in the sixteenth century, known as the Reformation. The resulting religious division of Europe was instrumental in triggering a series of wars that dominated much of economic and social crisis that were besetting the region. One of the responses to the crisis of the seventeenth century was a search for order. The most general trend was and extension of monarchical power as a stabilizing force. This development, which is Dorians have called absolutism or absolute monarchy, what is most evident in France during the flamboyant reign of Louis XIV, regarded by some as the perfect embodiment of absolute monarch.
Protestant Reformation- The Protestant Reformation is the name given to the religious reform movement that divided the Western Christian church into Catholic and Protestant groups. Although the Reformation began with Martin Luther in the early sixteenth century, several earlier developments had sets the stage for religious…show more content… Anabaptism and Calvinism are ideas that arose during the transformation of Europe. Anabaptism is the doctrine that baptism should only be administered to believing adults, which was held by a racial Protestant sect that emerged during the 1520s and 1530s. Anabaptists are Christians who believe in delaying baptism until the candidate confesses his or her faith. The anabaptist believed the true Christian church was a voluntary Association of believers who had undergone spiritual rebirth and had then been baptized into the church. On another note, moving onto the idea of Calvinism, it was a Protestant theological system of John Calvin and his successors, which develops Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone into an emphasis on the grace of God and centre's on the doctrine of predestination. On most important doctrines, Calvin stay very close to
