HOW MANY DIFFERENT PROTESTANT GROUPS CAN YOU THINK OF?

The Protestant Reformation

Main Idea

Corruption and abuses in the Catholic Church led to a movement criticizing the Church which brought major changes in religion and politics throughout Europe.

Essential questions: How did the Protestant Movement originate and what

impact did it have? What were the goals and beliefs of the Protestant

Movement?

Dissatisfaction with the Church

Criticisms of Catholicism

Abuse of powerImmorality

Popes & priests w/ kids

Life of luxury for clergy

Financial corruption Sale of indulgences Heavy taxation (to pay

for art, etc.)

Martin Luther

1517 – The 95 Theses MAIN POINTS

Indulgences - NO power to remit sins

Salvation by faith aloneBible only source of

truthLess rigidity/ritual

Services in vernacular Bible read by all Community of believers

vs. hierarchy of clergy

Church Reaction

Pope Leo X excommunicates Luther

1521 – Edict of Worms Luther an outlaw Writings condemned

Edict of Worms

Charles V – Holy Roman Emperor

“For this reason we forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favor the said Martin Luther. On the contrary, we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic, as he deserves, to be brought personally before us. . .”

Luther’s Response

“. . .I am bound by the Sacred Scriptures I have cited . . .and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything. . .God help me.”

Rushed out of Worms & hidden in Wartburg, Germany

Spread of Protestant Movement

Lutheranism – 1st Protestant faith

1529 – Charles V tries to suppress Lutheran movement

1530 – German princes protest (giving us Protestant)

Calvinist (Reformed Church)

Switzerland“. . .people are sinful

by nature . . .”Theocracy

Strict laws Church mandatory Color of clothing

Predestination – God knows who will be saved and nothing you can do can change your fate

Church of England

Henry VIII “Defender of the Faith”

“The King’s Great Matter” 1st wife can’t have son Wants annulment Pope says no

Reformation Parliament Henry head of church

not pope (kept doctrines/rituals)

Act of Supremacy

Anglican

Henry VIII dies 1547Only son Edward VI

takes throne, but dies in teens

Mary, his sister, tries to restore Catholicism “Bloody Mary”

1558 – Elizabeth I, half-sister, takes throne Blends Protestant belief

with Catholic practices

Anabaptists

Adult baptismSeparation from

world

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