History of World Civilization: Religious Reform (part 1)
by G
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The accurate name of this volume should be "The history of European civilization outside Italy from around 1300 to 1564, including the religious history of Italy, as well as the civilizations of Islam and Judaism in Europe, Africa, and West Asia." The Renaissance and the Reformation were the two sources of hostility between intellectuality and morality in modern life. Some people would be grateful to the Renaissance for liberating people's minds and beautifying life, while others would be grateful to the Reformation for inspiring religious beliefs and moral awareness. The Renaissance indeed inherited the mainstream of European spiritual development, and later led to the Enlightenment; but the Reformation deviated from the norm, rejected reason, and reaffirmed medieval beliefs. The lesson provided by the war is that any religion must survive in competition, and it will not become tolerant if it does not face challenges to appear supreme. The gift of the Reformation was to provide this kind of competition of faith, to make each religion strive to strive, to remind them of their tolerance, and to bring the desire and experiment of freedom to our fragile hearts.
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