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The Reformation began with a simple list of complaints against the Catholic Church—and ended up changing the world.

A key belief that drove the Reformation was there should be no separation between the Bible and the believer. 

The Reformation’s focus on individuals reading the Bible helped spread literacy and learning across Europe. 

The recent invention of the printing press was crucial to the success of the Protestant Reformation.

Luther’s ideas helped create the modern individual—a free actor with God-given rights that exist independent of man-made institutions.

An unintended consequence of the Reformation was a series of bloody religious wars between Protestants and Catholics. 