A World of Churches | How the Reformation Remade Christianity (Ep. 10, Season 1 Finale)

Once Martin Luther cracked the door open, it could not be closed. Within a single generation, the one church of the West shattered into many: a stricter reform in Switzerland, radicals baptized in the rivers of Europe, a king breaking with Rome in England, and Christians going to war with other Christians in the name of the same Lord. This is how the Reformation remade the world, for good and for ill. This is Episode 10, the Season 1 finale of The Church Through the Ages, a cinematic documentary series tracing the full 2,000-year story of the Christian Church. In this episode we follow the faith as it splinters into a family of traditions, survives a century of religious war, and plants the first seeds of religious freedom, before boarding ships to become a truly global movement. In this episode: Zwingli and Calvin, and the reform that shaped whole nations The radical Anabaptists and their dream of a free church King Henry the Eighth and the birth of the Church of England The Catholic Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent Ignatius of Loyola, the Jesuits, and Catholicism going global The wars of religion and their terrible cost How religious freedom was born, and the faith prepared to cross the oceans