Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

In 1154 Burma's pride, the then
Hindu temple of Angkor Vat was
ready. On 13/14-century it was
converted into a Buddhist
sanctuary.
The Christians tried to force the Muslim part of the world to convert into christianity in something called
crusades, these culminated in 1226.
1517 The German Catholic priest Martin Luther (1483-1546) presented his 95 theses on how the church
should be reformed and in 1534 he published a German translation of the Bible. He founded thereto
Protestantism by working for a number of changes in the church, the most important was probably:
1. The Bible should be the basis for the service.
2. Preaching should be in the mother tongue.
3. Hymns are a central part of the worship.
4. The teaching of Christianity should be the focus, for that he wrote the Small Catechism 1529 th .
5. Justification by faith, that is the most important thing is to believe and to believe the right things. In
contrast to the Catholic Church that more see the seven sacraments (baptism, confirmation, marriage,
penance/confession, communion, ordination and the last rites) as the main components of being a good
Christian.
There are three main types of Protestantism: the Lutheran, Anglican and Calvinian.
The Calvinism founder Swiss Jean Calvin was roughly contemporary with Martin Luther. Calvin himself
thought he was a adept of Luther and he also belived the doctrine of justification by faith.
The most distinctive of the Calvinism is the predestination theory. God Hve Desided that some people will
get salvation and the other, the masses, will get eternal damnation. The calvinists are the choosen ones and
they must continuously be working, since they are created for the glory of God. The world and all its
treasures shall be given to God. This has provoked a desire for outward activities of great importance.
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