The Refomration Continues Flashcards
-huldrych zwingli:
egan religious reform in switzerland, catholic priest in Zurich, influenced by christian humansim of erasum and by reforms of luther, openely attacked absues in catholic churhc, called for return to the more personal faith of early christianity, wanted believers to have more control over church
-swiss protestans and catholics war
during war zwingli met his death
-calvin:
published institues of christian religion, wrote that men and women are sinful by nature, went on to say that god chooses a very few people to save, believed god has knwon since the beginning of time who will be saved
-the elect:
god chooses a very few people to save
-institues of christian religion:
xpressed ideas about god, salvation, and human nature, summary of protestant theology or religious beliefs
-predestination
doctrine of god knowing since the beginning of time who will be saved
-calvinsim:
religion based on calvin’s teachings
-theocracy
government controlled by religious leaders
-calvin and geneva switzerland:
ran city according to strict rules, everyone attended religion class, no one wore bright clothnig or played card games, authorities would imprison excommunicate or banish those who broke such rules, anyone who preached different doctrine might be burned at stake, MODEL CITY OF HIGHLY MORAL CITIZENS
-john knox
put calvin’s ideas to work, each community church was governed by a group of laymen called elders or presbyters
-presbyterians:
followers of knox
-swiss dutch and french reformers:
adopted calvinist form of church organization
-calvin influential:
protestant churches today trace roots to calvin
-huguenots
france, calvin’s followers, hatred between catholic and them led to violence
-catholic feast of st. bartholomew’s day:
catholic mobs began hunting for protestants and murdering them, massacres spread to other cities and lasted six months
-protstants teachings
bible is source of all religious truth and that people should read it to discover new truths, formed over differences in belief
-anabaptists
aptized only those persons who were old enough to decide to be christians, tuaght tha church and state should be seperate, refused to fight in wars, shared their possessions, presecuted, became forerunners of mennonites and amish
-marguerite of navarre, sister of king francis I<
protected john calvin from beging executed for his beliefs while he lived in france
-women:
: proteced reformers, wives of some reformers had influence
-katherine zell:
married to matthew zell of strasbourg once solded a minsiter for speaking harshly of another reformer
-katherine von bora
luther’s wife, sent to a convent at about 10, become a nun fled the convent, had six children, managed family finances, fed all who visited her house, supported her husband’s work, respected luther’s position but argued with him about women’s equal role in marriage
-women in religion:
men religious leaders narrowly limited women’s activities to home and discouraged them from being leaders in church