Divisions within christian religion were initiated by this individual during the 1500's

Divisions within Christian religion were initiated by Martin Luther during the 1500's.

Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, and a religious reformer who initiated the Protestant Reformation that occurs during the 1500's. Martin Luther stood against many practices and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. He also instigated a group that recreated some basic principles of Christian and led in the separation of western Christianity between the new protestant traditions (such as the Anglican communion, Anabaptists, Lutheranism), and Roman Catholicism.