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
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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
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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
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