Renaissance and Reformation Section 3 Essential Questions What was the state of Catholicism in the 1400s? How did Martin Luther challenge the Catholic

Renaissance and Reformation Section 3

Essential Questions

• What was the state of Catholicism in the 1400s?

• How did Martin Luther challenge the Catholic Church?

• How did Protestantism spread to other areas?

• What were the effects of the Reformation in England?

Main Idea

Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church led to a religious movement called the Protestant Reformation and brought changes in religion and politics across Europe.

The Protestant Reformation


Roman Catholic Church—influential, extravagant, and worldlySome people felt church straying from spiritual roots Concerns turned into the Protestant Reformation

• Financial corruption, abuse of power, immorality

• People’s respect for priests, monks, popes weakened

Dissatisfaction

• Pope approved sale of indulgences

• Indulgences, pardons reduced a soul’s time in purgatory

Indulgences

• Catholics believed dead went to purgatory, worked off sins committed

• Sale of indulgences widely criticized

• People wanted a govt. separate from the church

Working Off Sins

Catholicism in the 1400s


Summarize

What conditions led to the Protestant Reformation?

Answer(s): Church's financial corruption; immorality; abuse of power


Martin Luther’s public criticism of the church in 1517 marks the symbolical beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

• Martin Luther believed selling indulgences sinful

• In theses, said indulgences had no power to remit sin

• Criticized power of pope, wealth of church

• Theses written in Latin, intended for church leaders, not common people

The Ninety-Five Theses• Nailing theses to church door

common practice; doors used like community bulletin boards

• Theses stimulated discussion among university intellectuals

• Published, distributed across Europe, widely read by intellectuals, clergy, laypeople

• Desire for reform grew

Stimulated Discussion

Martin Luther


Empowered the People

• Insisted that individual Christians should be own interpreters of scripture, Christian practices should come only from Bible

• To aid this process, Luther translated Bible into German

• Translation allowed more people to read Bible without aid of clergy

Luther’s Message

• Following publication of theses, Luther continued to study, debate

• Contradicted basic Catholic beliefs, insisted God’s grace cannot be won by good works; faith alone needed

• 1519, declared only head of Christian Church was Jesus, not pope


Church’s Response

• 1520, Pope expelled Luther from the Church

• 1521, Luther summoned to appear before Holy Roman emperor Charles V

Edict of Worms

• Emperor handed down Edict of Worms

• Declared Luther to be outlaw, condemned his writings

• Luther’s ideas spread

Will you change?

• Luther appeared before emperor & assembly, at city of Worms

• Refused to change opinions

Protestant

• Tried to suppress Lutherans in Germany

• German princes issued protestatio, protest, against this

• Term Protestant came from this

Reactions to Luther


Identify Supporting Details

Describe the ideas of Martin Luther and how they contradicted the church’s teachings of

his day.

Answer(s): God's grace cannot be won by good works but by faith; leader of church is Jesus, not pope; people can interpret scripture; practices come from Bible; challenged Catholic practices and the authority of the pope


When the disagreement between Swiss Protestants and Catholics erupted into war, Zwingli died in battle.

• Luther’s stand against the church opened the door for others• Differing ideas on religious matters put forth. • New religious movements began in Switzerland and other places in

Europe.

• Born in Switzerland, preached ideas similar to Martin Luther’s

• Many ideas viewed as radical

• His church based on theocracy, government in which church, state joined; officials divinely inspired

Ulrich Zwingli

The Spread of Protestantism

• Luther accused Zwingli of tampering with word of God

• Without Lutherans’ support, Swiss Protestants vulnerable to attack by Catholics

Opposed by Luther


Background

• John Calvin most important Protestant reformer next to Martin Luther

• Supported reforms of Luther in Germany

People Sinful by Nature

• Geneva became theocracy under Calvin; strict laws regulated behavior

• Strictness at heart of Calvinism’s appeal, gave sense of mission, discipline

• Calvinists making world fit for “elect” who had been chosen for salvation

Predestination

• Preached doctrine of predestination

• God knows who will be saved, guides lives of those destined for salvation

• Nothing humans can do, good or bad, will change predestined end

John Calvin


John Knox

• Spokesman for the Reformation in Scotland

– Knox’s Reformed Church replaced Roman Catholic Church

– Laid groundwork for later Presbyterian denomination

Anabaptists

• Different beliefs about baptism; insisted only adults should be baptized (not infants)

– Crime punishable by death at that time

– Anabaptist Church evolved into Baptists, the Mennonites, and the Amish Mennonites

Other Reformers


Make Generalizations

How did the ideas of reformers who came after Luther differ from those of Luther?

Answer(s): some were more radical; included ideas of theocracy, predestination


• Protestant Reformation began with criticisms of the Catholic Church

• Reformation began with the king in England

• 1509, Henry VIII devout Catholic

• Wrote angry protests against Luther’s ideas

• By 1525, Henry had only one child, Mary

A King’s Protest

• Henry wanted male heir, thought female monarch would weaken England

• Decided to have marriage to Catherine annulled

• Pope would not agree to annulment

Annulment

• Catherine, nephew Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, also opposed annulment

• Henry fell in love with Ann Boleyn

Opposition

Protestantism Spreads to England


Henry Takes Over

• Parliament declared that England no longer under authority of pope

• Henry became head of Church of England

- Anne Boleyn and Henry secretly married; marriage to Catherine annulled

- Later that year Anne gave birth to daughter, Elizabeth

Church of England

• Henry changed rituals of church very little

• Distributed much of land to nobles, built more support for split from Church

• Act of Supremacy passed; Henry VIII “Supreme Head of Church of England”

The Reformation Parliament


• Third wife, Jane Seymour gave England male heir, Edward VI• 1547, Edward VI took throne, age 9• Protestantism gained more ground under guidance of his guardians• Edward died young; sister, Mary became queen of England

• Mary returned England to authority of pope

• Hundreds burned at state for Protestant beliefs, earning queen title “Bloody Mary”

• Half-sister Elizabeth became queen

Bloody Mary

• Elizabeth I, Protestant at heart

• 1559, drafted new Supremacy Act, splitting England again from Rome

• Elizabeth secured Church of England

Elizabeth’s Reign

Henry’s Heirs



Summarize

What caused the Reformation to spread to England?

Answer(s): the desire of Henry VIII to annul his marriage

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Renaissance and Reformation Section 3 Essential Questions What was the state of Catholicism in the 1400s? How did Martin Luther challenge the Catholic