The Protestant Reformation
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
CORRUPTION OF CHURCH
- Popes used excommunications
- To threaten monarchs
- Priests were illiterate
- Clergy broke vows of chastity
- Some lead lives of luxury
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CORRUPTION IN CHURCH
- Charged to see holy relics
- Simony: selling church
- Office to highest bidder
- Sold indulgences
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BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
- Phillip IV kidnapped Pope Boniface
- Replaced with French pope
- 7popes ruled from Avignon, France
- Seen as puppet of French kings
- Phillip wanted right to tax clergy
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THE GREAT SCHISM
- Papacy moved back 1376
- French cardinals elected Clement VII
- Italians elected Urban VI
- Both claimed right as Pope
- Many questioned papal authority
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WHY DID LUTHER QUESTION CHURCH?
- Salvation through good works?
- St Paul: salvation by faith alone
- Forgiveness for sins came from God
- Angered with sale of indulgences
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CRITICISMS INTO A NEW CHURCH
- Wrote 95 theses to debate
- Published works to question church
- Ideas led to a new church
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FORMED A NEW CHURCH
- Congregations choose own minister
- Saints & holy days was sinful
- Mass conducted in German not Latin
- Clergy allowed to marry
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REFORMS LEAD TO REVOLT IN GERMANY
- Peasants revolted against lords
- Princes seized church land
- Peace of Augsburg
- Forced many to move
- In order to worship freely
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ANABAPTISTS
- Founded by Zwingli
- Thought Christians should not
- be baptized until adulthood
- Believed true Christians should
- form a separate community
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ANGLICANS
- Founded byHenry VIII of England
- Wasn't granted a divorce from pope
- Believed monarch, not pope,
- was religious authority in England
- Beliefs almost same as Catholics
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CALVINISTS
- Founded by John Calvin
- Believed in predestination
- God predetermined salvation
- Thought disciplined, austere
- life would prove this
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WHY DID IT SPREAD?
- Political leaders saw escape
- from power of Catholic Church
- People tired of church abuses
- Charismatic people provide leadership
- Rising literacy rate= rapid spread
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