1. Get out pencil and notebook Protestant Reformation Notes
November 11, 2016
Get out pencil and notebook
Protestant Reformation Notes

2. Warm Up
Name as many branches of Christianity as you can

3. Crash Course: Protestant Reformation

4. Factors that lead to Protestant Reformation
Weakened Church authority
New ways of thinking
Renaissance

5. Factors that lead to Protestant Reformation
Printing press
Politics
Church decadence

6. Indulgences
Pieces of paper that could be bought that symbolized the Church transferring merit and forgiving sins
Claimed to release people from purgatory

7. “A copper in the coffer sings, a soul from purgatory springs”
A 1517 indulgence from Johannes Tetzel that reads, “By the authority of all the saints, and in mercy towards you, I absolve you from all sins and misdeeds and remit all punishments for ten days.”
“A copper in the coffer sings, a soul from purgatory springs”

9. Martin Luther (1483-1546) Luther was an Augustinian monk in Germany
Witnessed effect of indulgences and Church wrongdoings

10. 95 Theses Posted on the door of Wittenberg chapel on October 31, 1517.
Written in German
Argued against indulgences and other church violations
Copied with printing press and distributed around Europe

11. The 95 Theses are now engraved in iron on the door of the Wittenberg chapel

12. Luther’s Platform Three Tiers
Salvation comes through faith alone and not through good works
The Bible is the sole authority and not Church dogma or the pope.
People of faith were equal and didn’t need others to interpret the Bible for them.

13. Reaction by Catholic Church
Diet of Worms 1521
Luther excommunicated

14. Reaction in Europe
Princes used the Reformation to gain power over their realms by dismissing Papal/Church Authority.
Series of wars and peasant revolts until the Peace of Augsburg in

17. King Henry VIII of England
Mini Bio video

18. Anglicanism New branch of Christianity created by Henry VIII
Part of Protestantism
English Monarch is the head of the Church

20. Catherine of Aragon (Spain)
Left by Henry with no male heir.

21. Anne Boleyn
Second Wife
Gives birth to Elizabeth I
In 1536, she’s accused of adultery and treason. Henry locks her up and has her executed.

22. Jane Seymour
Third Wife
Henry married her 11 days after Anne’s execution.
Finally bears a male heir. (Edward VI)
Dies two weeks after the birth.

23. Anne of Cleaves
Fourth Wife
Was a political marriage for Henry.
Once the political advantage was gone, Henry has the marriage annulled.

24. Catherine Howard
Fifth Wife
Henry found out she had affairs before getting married and may have committed adultery.
Got Parliament to pass a law declaring it treason for an unchaste woman to marry the king.
She’s beheaded two days later in 1542.

25. Catherine Parr
Sixth Wife
She survives Henry who dies in 1547.

26. One more thing… that painting at the beginning is a Hans Holbein
One more thing… that painting at the beginning is a Hans Holbein. Check the detail.

29. Edward VI
Becomes king in 1547 at the age of nine.
Dies six years later
During his reign, however, English Protestantism was significantly advanced and developed.

30. Mary I
Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s daughter
Queen from
Reinstates Catholicism

31. Elizabeth I One of England’s greatest rulers if not THE greatest.
Reinstates Protestantism after Mary I
Defeats Spanish Armada in 1588
Reigns from

32. Elizabeth I mini bio video

33. Calvinism John Calvin Swiss preacher in Geneva
Predestination: God had already determined who would be saved
Calvinism
Stress the following:
Hard work
Modesty
Morality
Thrift
Honesty
Discipline

34. Spread of Calvinism Started in Geneva, Switzerland
Spread to France, Netherlands, Germany, England