Religious Revolution

Question 1

What were the critiques of the Catholic Church? (3 answers)

Answer 1

• Gone from spiritual to state (Bishops held a lot of power)
• More interested in indulgences and tax
• Catholicism is Roman, feels foreign to Northern Europe, ex. Denmark

Question 2

Start of Lutheranism?

What was used to make this happen?

Answer 2

Martin Luther, German

‘95 Theses’, 1517

Gutenberg Printing Press

Question 3

Start of Calvinism?

Answer 3

John Calvin, French

‘The Institutes of the Christian Religion’, 1536

Question 4

Ideas in Lutheranism

Answer 4

Sola fide - Faith in God alone

Sola scriptura - Belief in scripture alone

Question 5

Ideas in Calvinism

Answer 5

C - Can’t lose your salvation

A - All of mankind is sinful

B - Belief in Jesus will save you (elect)

D - Divisions are predestined into the elect and the reprobate

Question 6

Local Lutheran divisions (2 answers)

Answer 6

Separation of Church and State

Peasants thought they had power (German Peasants’ War, 1524)

Question 7

Local Calvin divisions

Answer 7

Elect separate themselves from Reprobate (ex. Geneva)

Question 8

What does elect judging reprobate lead to?

Answer 8

Political and social individualism

Question 9

Global religious divisions

Answer 9

Separated Europe into individual countries, bible in vernacular (Lutheranism)

Thirty Year’s War, 1618 –> Weaken Holy Roman Empire

Question 10

When was the German Peasants’ War? What did it show about divisions within religion?

Answer 10

1524

Power of religious hierarchy shift to community = made them feel godly and powerful