I am unaware of Protestantism being understood as a new religion that was caused by the Colombian Exchange.
Has anyone looked at it as a result of the new world?
Luther and Columbus
Luther and Columbus
"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
Re: Luther and Columbus
Main prompting appears to be "Renaissance Humanism" and the school around Erasmus and Luther. The Renaissance brought new discoveries and freethinkers like Da Vinci.Clive wrote:I am unaware of Protestantism being understood as a new religion that was caused by the Colombian Exchange.
Has anyone looked at it as a result of the new world?
Kind of hard to see direct connection to Columbus, since 1. Columbus' voyage was Spanish and so were the possessions in the New World before c. 1550 besides the Portuguese's. Protestants were typically Germanic, with some French like Calvin. 2. Calvin taught that the world was flat, whereas the Portuguese and Spanish voyages showed it was round. That was actually the premise of Columbus' voyage to the Indies- a "round globe", the very term and concept Calvin opposed in his writing on Plato. (SOURCE: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes.iii.vi.html)
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