Reformations Flashcards
What were the 5 protest reformations
- Lutheran (martin Luther)
- Anglican (Henry vlll, Church of England)
- Reform church of Zurich (Ulrich Zwingli)
- Calvinism (Jean Calvin)
- Anabaptists
Desiderius Erasmus
Humanist monk, teacher, and priest in the Netherlands who read through whole bible and became confused.
- He questioned the popes power and the wealth of the church
- Had enemies for making fun of scholastic theology
- Found repentance not penance
Thomas More
- learned from Erasmus
- Was a lawyer, writer (utopia) and lord chancellor to King Henry Vlll
- Executed in 1535 for not agreeing with Church of England
Protestant protests
- Indulgences (greed and dishonesty)
- simony:purchase of church office (unethical)
- wealth of church
- superfluous rituals (sacraments)
- iconoclasm (no saintly intervention)
- hierarchy (everyone is a priest)
- accessible bible
- salvation by faith alone (only god determines fate)
- transubstantiation (bread and wine)
Indulgences
Paper that was given to someone who paid off their sin
- can buy future papers
- buy for others
- appears buried with you to lessen time in purgatory
October 31 1517
Ninety five theses of Martin Luther nailed to cathedral door of Wittenberg
-spark of Protestant reformation
Lutheranism
- salvation by faith alone
- baptism and Eucharist
- scriptures are only guide to truth
- abolishment of clerical celibacy
Anglican start
King Henry vlll was married to brother in laws wife Catherine of Aragon.
- received papal dispensation to marry her
- wanted another to annul marriage when he loved Anne Boleyn (pope refused)
- King Henry declared his own church in spite and made himself supreme head of clergy of England (More executed)
Reform Church of Zurich
- First reformed church in Switzerland
- No icons, no music, Christine discipline of bodies and souls
- reduce ritual to minimum
- marriage court
Transubstantiation
- Catholics: bread and wine stayed in their forms and priests words transformed it into body and blood
- Luther argued they were both at once
- Ulrich Zwingli said bread and wine remained themselves (body only as a symbol)
Calvinism
- Jean Calvin exiled from France, settled in Geneva
- Predestination
- Rigid discipline of Christians and citizens
- believed in theocracy (system of government by priestly order; no separation of secular and religious authority)
Anabaptists
(Adult baptism)
- Mennonites (Menno Simmons)
- Hutterites (Jacob Hutter)
- Pacifism, no taxes, no oaths, no private property (colonies)
Catholic reformations
council of Trent (twenty years long)
- vulgate bible (Latin) was only true text
- affirmation of seven sacraments
- veneration of saints
- education of clergy
- reformed monastic life
- private confessional
- index of forbidden books
Peasants war
1524-1525 in central and southern Germany
- wanted true gospel preached
- wanted to be free men as in bible
- Luther dint like his message being used for the war and told authorizes to kill them.
- 5000-6000 killed in a day
- lords changed legal status to free to move and marry
Which regions increased in literacy
Protestant with bibles being printed and read by both girls and boys