Article: Changing course.

From earliest times, religious reformers who wished to change the Christian Church were blocked, frustrated, or crushed by church authorities. Yet these reformers rarely sought to break away from the church. The movement for change (the Reformation) that began with Martin Luther in 1517, however, shattered religious unity in Europe. Nevertheless, even though the bitter religious struggles that followed led to much material and financial exhaustion, neither camp was able to eliminate the other. Peace treaties did attempt to resolve the conflicts by dividing territories along religious lines. That is, if the ruler of an area was Catholic, only Catholics were legally ...

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