The Protestant Reformation led to the Enlightenment

Evidence

This conviction, dearly and bloodily bought, that there are many ways to truth, changed the intellectual and political life of Europe, so that in 1717, when the bicentenary of Luther nailing his theses to the church door came round and new broadsheets were produced, the whole continent was well on the way to a revolution just as profound as the Reformation and, in many ways, a consequence of it – the Enlightenment. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1313

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1313
• XREF: connects to: Martin Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation in 1517 — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1302; Enlightenment reason politics drove attacks on Christianity as irrational — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 158; Calvinism’s economic ethic is really classical republicanism, not Protestantism (+1 more)