PROTESTANT

REFORMATION

I. Beginning

A. Protestant: Someone who protests the

Catholic Church
B. Reformation: Wanting change in the
Catholic Church
C. Reasons the Protestant Reformation
began

The Church made people say IMAD

I. Beginning

D. IMAD

1. I- Indulgences
a.

Certificates that take away sin

b. Church would sell forgiveness to make
money
c. Made the poor upset.

I. Beginning

D. IMAD

2. M-Merchants wanted usury

a.

Usury: Lending money and charging interest

b. Church against usury
c. Upset the merchants

I. Beginning

D. IMAD

3. A- Absolute Power and Wealth

a.

Church owned land

Gave them the ability to make money

b.

Ruling Class and wealthiest people were

mad.

Wanted the Churchs power, money, and land

I. Beginning

D. IMAD

4. D- Domination of Church by Italians

a.

Non-Italians were mad

b.

German and English

Wanted more representation in the Church

II. Reformers

II. Reformers

A. Martin Luther

F- Faith Save people, not good works

Church=

salvation by following church

guidelines

U- Ultimate authority for Christians Bible

Church=

Pope is the authority

N= Nobody more important in Gods eyes

Laity

is equal to clergy

II. Reformers

A. Martin Luther

1. 95 Theses(1517)
a.

List the complaints about the Church

b. Excommunicated by the Pope

Kicked out of the church

Heretic- person who talks out against the Church.

2. Writes New Testament in German

a.

In hiding while writing

b. Ideas start to spread in Germany
C. Followers formed the 1st Protestant Church

II. Reformers

B. John Calvin

P= Predestination
God

has already chosen who is going to Heaven

You dont get there by good works.

O= Our moral lives reveal if we were

chosen
W= Work ethic must honor God.

II. Reformers

B. John Calvin

1. Broke from the Catholic Church

2. Established the Calvinist Church
3. Printing press helped spread ideas
a.

Spread to Scotland and North America

II. Reformers

C. King Henry VIII(England)

D- Divorce; Pope said no.

A- Anglican Church
King

was in charge of the Church, not Pope

D- Did away with Catholic Churchs land

and wealth

II. Reformers

C. King Henry VIII

1. Church looked like the Catholic Church

a.

No Pope

2. Protestants mad= Too Catholic

3. Catholics mad = Too Protestant
4. Elizabeth I a.

combines Catholic style with Protestant

teachings
b. Anglican Church becomes the official church
of England

II. Reformers

D. John Knox

1. Established the Presbyterian Church

a.

Scotland

III. Counter Reformation

III. Counter Reformation

The Catholic Church set to reform itself

S- Society of Jesus (Jesuit priests)

1.

Attempted to convert people back to Catholic

Church

2.

In Europe and around the world

Established by Ignatius of Loyola

I- Inquisition
1.

Church court established to root out heresy

2. Sometimes aimed at Jews and Muslims

III. Counter Reformation

The Catholic Church set to reform itself

N- No more indulgences
1.

Council of Trent

Attempted to end corruption in the Church

Salvation- Faith & Good Works
Bible is religious truth, but not the only source

S- Stop the spread of Protestants

1.

Thirty Years War (Holy Roman Empire) 16181648

Catholic Rulers (Hapsburgs) vs.

Protestant Princes of Northern German City-States.
LAST MAJOR RELIGIOUS WAR (Catholic vs.
Protestants)