The influence of Reformation on education, science and culture in early modern England

This article studies the Reformation and Protestantism as a religious potential for cultural evolution. The religious confession influenced all areas of social life, including education, science, and culture. The ideas of Protestantism, based on the need for every believer to read the text of Holy Scripture independently without any intermediaries and external authorities began to form a special type of personality in Protestant culture. An individual began to seek education and to develop his point of view on the phenomena and processes of natural and social genesis. The study has also revealed that in the development of English Protestantism the tendencies highlighted in the article led to an «educational revolution» of the second half of the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. The increase in the number of university students during this period is evidence of young people’s desire for pragmatic knowledge in scientific research. The reliance on the word in all spheres of a culture shaped the specific logocentrism of the period of English history studied in the article.