Topic 2: Early Reformation in Germany and Switzerland Flashcards
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Martin Luther
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- Observantine Augustinian monk - reformation from within
- Anxiety about sinfulness
- 1517 Wittenberg 95 theses - faith alone
- Leipzig disputation - scripture alone
- Spread due to printing, anti-Roman sentiment, protected by prince, humanist admiration
2
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Zwingli
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- Christian Humanist
- Government and church two sides of same community
- Scripture alone
- Conflict between swiss Cantons
- Dispute with Luther over Eucharist in 1529 - reformed protestant
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Early Reformation in Germany
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- Zealous urban protest movement
- more critical than constructive
- spread - printing and preaching
- Magistrates wanted order
4
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Peasants War
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- 1524 -1525
- Gospel fraternal equality at odds with peasant/landlord tension
- Largest mass movement prior to French Revolution
- Thomas Muntzer
- Suppression ended mass movement and marginalised radicalism
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Early Anabaptism
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- Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz
- Zurich 1525
- against tithes, images and infant baptism
- Not happy that Zwingli capitulated
- Supression of Peasants War led to separtism (World rejects truth, truth rejects the world)
- Swiss Bretheren, South German/Austrian Bretheren, Hutterites
- Severe persecution
- Sattlers Seven Schlytham articles - strongly separtist pacificism