Abstract
The ecclesiastical schism connected with the European Reformation brought to lije new churches emerging in the territory of states, regions, and cities. The basis of their legal, political and doctrinal life became confession, by which the new churches fully separated from the original Roman Catholic Church.
The most important of them, not the only one, became the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana), especially oj the Lutherans (1530). The next phase of the confessionalization oj the Empire began with the Religious Peace of Augsburg (1555) already observed by Ferdinand I.
The issue of the Christian truth - common to all confessions was not and could not be solved by him, as one of the paths from the growing European religious crisis led here. Only the ecclesiastical council, which would have brought together statesmen and theologians of all confessional parties, could have opened the issue of the common truth and tried to solve it.
Thus, on the common ground of Christian truth, the unification of denominations failed to materialize. The Augsburg Peace was a necessary but also an insufficient political-administrative compromise.
The religious war was thus prepared for the future, for the European years 1618- 1648. The Thirty Years' War affected all European countries for a shorter or longer period of time, including Turkey, which was controlling part of south-eastern European territory.
The financing of these wars alone has become a huge economic burden for the participating European powers, whose armies have grown faster than their sources of income.