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Reformation Rising
What is Reform?
A) To put or change into an improved form or condition
B) To amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses
C) To put an end to (an evil) by enforcing or introducing a better method or course of action
D) To introduce or cause to abandon evil ways
Can You Name any Reforms that have not been “Messy”?
Problems in the Church
Power competition – Pope vs Kings
Nepotism
Growing wealth of clergy
Sale of indulgences
Cult or relics
Disengagement from people
Martin Luther
Father of the Reformation
Personal agony over salvation
Scripture alone, Faith alone, Grace alone
Justification by Faith
“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemptionthat is in Christ Jesus, whomGod put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.”
(Romans 3:23-26)
If you are feeling a little distant from God, guess who moved?
Reformer
Clergy not necessary – each individual could discoverthe meaning of the Bible
No need for clergy to remaincelibate or not to marry
Veneration of saints & pilgrimages to shrines & holy places not prerequisites for salvation
Reformer
Attacked church’s sale of indulgences
Declared the Office of the Papacy the anti-Christ
Luther refuses to recant
Excommunicated from Church
Protected by Frederick,Elector of Saxony
The Spread of Lutheranism
Printing Press
Translated Bible into German
Singing Church (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Offered hope and renewal
Appealed to commoners, poor people, & nobility
A Protestant Reformation
Calvinism/Anglicanism
Predestination/the Elect
Progressive sanctification
Public officials must be “vicars of God”
Spread arguments for opposition to monarchy
A Different World
The Legacy of the Reformation
Shattered the unity of Western world
Questioned authority of Pope/Weakened Church
Strengthened power of monarchs & growth of modern state
Contributed to growth of political liberty & basis for challenging monarchical authority (right to Revolution if not following God’s laws)
The Legacy of the Reformation
Personal faith rather than adherence to Church
Individualistic ethic
Protestant work ethic
Legacy of Reformation
Helps launch modern science & the scientific method
“Thinking God’s Thoughts after Him”
A rational God & Designer created an ordered universe to study, explore, and unpack for human living
The “priesthood of the individual believer”
Legacy of Reformation
“People of the Book” pushed education & literacy foreveryone
Johann Gutenberg: “I know what I want to do: I wish to manifold print the Bible.”
All Hallows’ Eve