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How was the Anglican Church or Church of England developed?

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Henry 8th used the Protestant movement as an excuse to break with the papacy in Rome so that he could create and English national church

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Summarize the reformation.

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In the 16th century an attempt to reform the Christian church developed into a Protestant movement that shattered the religious unity of Europe.

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How did the Catholic Church respond to the Protestant movement?

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With reforms and aggressive countermeasures

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What was one reason why ppl felt the need for a religious reformation?

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The papacy in Rome was widely seen to be more concerned with building and retaining worldly power & wealth than in guiding souls to salvation.

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What was one way in which the papacy in Rome was widely seen to be more concerned with worldly power & wealth than in guiding souls to salvation?

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The selling of indulgences -ppl paid to get rid of their sins

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What were 5 abuses conducted by the Catholic Church?

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Simony 
Pluralism 
Absenteeism 
Nepotism 
Indulgences
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What is simony?

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Buying and selling of benefices (church offices)

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What is pluralism?

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Being able to have more than 1 benefice at a time

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What is absenteeism?

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When the bishop doesn’t show up in their city

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What is nepotism?

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Giving positions to family or friends

-could be bc they owed somebody something or they want something from someone

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How did Pope Leo X change the idea of indulgences?

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He made it so that you could also buy indulgences for your dead relatives.

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Why does Pope Leo X adjust the idea of indulgences?

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So that he could have money to rebuild the St.Peters Basilica

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Who was Johan Tetzel?

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An indulgence preacher (salesman) sent out by Pope Leo X

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Big advantage that Martin Luther had that others didn’t

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The printing press

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How did Martin Luther become so devoted to religion?

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He had a fear of storms so one day there’s a storm so he prays to a saint saying that if he lives through the storm he will devote his live to God.

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What is the 95 theses?

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Written by Luther,

An economic argument about indulgences and why it’s incorrect

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3 main concepts of luther’s belief

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Sola scriptura
Sola fide
Sola gratia

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Sola scriptura

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(Martin Luther) “by scripture alone” his belief that the only authority for Christians is the bible (old and new testaments)
-claimed that the only 2 sacraments are baptism & communion bc they’re the only ones found in the bible

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Sola fide

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(Martin Luther) “by faith alone” his belief that salvation was achieved by faith alone

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Sola gratia

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(Martin Luther) “by grace alone” only by god’s grace choosing you do you receive salvation

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What was the priesthood of all believers?

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One of luther’s concept that argued that all true believers received God’s grace and were therefore priests in God’s eyes

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Why did nobility find Luther appealing?

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Luther was good friends with Fredrick of Saxony (a Prince) and the nobility of the GERMAN districts owed their allegiance to Fredrick

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What are 3 of Luther’s famous pamphlets?

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  • “The Freedom of the Christian Man”
  • “Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation”
  • “On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church”
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Importance of “The Freedom of the Christian Man”

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Luther encouraged common men to obey their Christian conscience and respect those in authority who seemed to possess true Christian principles

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Importance of “Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation”

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Appealed to the German princes’ desire for both greater unity & power & to their desire to be out from under the thumb of an Italian pope

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Importance of “On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church”

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Attacked the traditional 7 sacraments replacing them with only 2

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What was the Peace of Augsburg? What did it do?

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(1555) GERMAN princes made it clear they no longer bowed down to Rome
It established “he who rules; his religion” & signaled to Rome that the German princes would not go to war with each other over religion.

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Where did Protestantism spread successfully?

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Netherlands, Scandinavia, Scotland and England

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Where did the Protestant movement encounter more difficulty?

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Eastern and Southern Europe

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What was the Diet of worms?

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Luther was told it was a debate but it wasn’t it was a trap the church asks if he wants to recant his sins , Luther says no. so Luther is excommunicated and outlawed by the church (empire puts bounty on Martin Luther)

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Where was there the most bloodshed when it came to Protestantism?

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France bc in 1534 Protestantism was declared heretical and illegal

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Term for French Protestants

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Huguenots

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What was the peasant revolt? When was it?

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(1524-1525) peasants were pushing for social equality

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What did Luther do in response to the peasant revolt?

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He published another pamphlet “Against the Murdering & Robbing Horde of Peasants” telling the princes that it’s their duty to crush the peasant revolt

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Why didn’t Luther want the peasant revolt to succeed?

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He didn’t want to start a social revolution he believed that it was strictly a spiritual revolution

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“Cuius regio, eius religio”

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“He who rules; his religion”

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Describes Zwingli’s reformation?

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Leader of Swiss reformation (militant)
Followers extremely hardcore and violent about their ideas
Reform = if it is literally in the bible then you can use it

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What was the Marburg Colluquy?

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The event in which Luther & Zwingli get together and argue about co substation and transubstantiation eventually respecting each other’s belief

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What was the edict of Nantes?(1598)

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Royal edict which established the principle of religious toleration in France

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Consubstantiation v. Transubstantiation

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Ml v Catholic Church

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Calvinism

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Accepts Lutheran theology however mainly emphasized on predestination

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Predestination is?

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The idea that God has predetermined which people will be saved

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What helped spread Calvinist ideas?

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The Genevan Academy

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According to Calvinists there are 2 kinds of people

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1) elect - those predestined to be Calvinist

2) everybody else

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How were Calvinist churches organized?

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Pastors (take what was studied in scripture & preach the word)
Doctors (studied scripture)
Deacons (coordinated charities)
Elders (disciplined; wrote discipline for church & community)

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John Calvin?

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Leader of Calvinist movement

French man who rejected Catholicism

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Who were the anabaptists?

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  • A group of radical reformers

- Believed in delaying baptism until the candidate could confess their faith