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I was asked to write about the religious reform in Europe in the Middle Ages on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. So, it's time to answer some questions. First and foremost, could religious reform principles be a beacon for Egyptians to get out of social retardation and the control of religious institutions over people?
Christianity started in Jerusalem and spread worldwide due to the sovereignty of the Roman Empire over many regions. Christians were persecuted by both Jews and Gentiles until it was recognized by Emperor Constantine in the fourth century and declared the official religion of the Empire.
The intervention of Constantine in the Synods was the beginning of intervention of politics in religion. As long as politics allied with religion, bargains, compromises and deals started to manifest between the two domains. Little by little, the Church became a mirror image of the Jewish religious institution which Christ has previously refused.

Little by little, the Pope controlled the appointment of kings, and Europe entered into the tunnel leading to the Crusades against the East, and which was not a religious war, but political one; and those who called for religious reform were condemned and burned together with scientists.
John Calvin, a philosopher who lived in Switzerland, said that reformers have left the traditional Church because it left the correct interpretation of the Bible. He noted that theology is based on two simple hypotheses: the knowledge of God and self-knowledge, given that you cannot know God without knowing yourself and vice versa. Hence, belief is based on knowledge, according to Calvin.
As for the role of the Church or the religious institution:
In traditional thought, church means containing, while reforming thought, and also means communication.
The Church in Egypt still abides by the old definition. . Thus it is considered a haven or refuge whose primary aim is to bring people from outside (the world), but at the same time, to be secluded. So, it's isolated from the society, and unable to communicate, and every now and then, it issues decisions that are sometimes political.
Juan Carlos, a Brazilian thinker, said in an article entitled "The Church that I Love" that such a Church is the one which has confidence that God is the port and that it is just a beacon.
Hence, there are three main Churches in the world: the first in Western Europe, the second is in Eastern Europe, and the third in the East. Because Western Europe adopted the Church reform thought, such a thought was transformed to the modern ages and it led the world through the U.S. which received migrated reformers who left Europe because of persecution. The Eastern European one was invaded by Marxism, while the Eastern Church is facing a question: where do we standing? Do we, as an Islamic-Christian society need a reformist thought to modernize?