1. Further Challenges to the Catholic Church Chapter 14:v

2. Switzerland emerged as the centre of the Protestant Reformation.

3. Ulrich Zwingli, a priest in Zurich, abolished the Catholic Mass, confessions, and indulgences. He also allowed priests to marry.

4. Zwingli held services in undecorated buildings and read sermons based on the Bible.

5. John Calvin, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, published the Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536.

6. Calvin believed in predestination, the idea that God had chosen who would be saved. God alone decided whether an individual received eternal life.

7. Calvin established churches with strong, disciplined leadership based on the strict morality taught in the Old Testament.

8. Calvinsim rapidly won many converts amongst middle-class townspeople.

9. Calvinism reflected their belief that people should live simply and work hard.

10. Huguenots French Calvinists were powerful in southern France experienced persecution at the hands of Roman Catholics

11. Gaspard de Coligny (1519-72) French admiral and Huguenot leader

12. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

14. John Knox took the Reformation to Scotland.

15. Puritans

16. Anabaptists called Baptists today argued against infant baptism -restricted church baptism and membership to adults were vigorously persecuted by other Protestants and Roman Catholics alike

17. The Reformation in England

18. The young English King Henry VIII published stinging attacks on the teachings of Martin Luther in 1521.

19. The pope awarded Henry VIII the title “Defender of the Faith.”

20. When his wife of eighteen years failed to produce a male heir, Henry VIII asked the pope to annul their marriage. Catherine of Aragon

21. Pope Clement VII refused to grant King Henry VIII an annulment so he could remarry.

22. King Henry VIII took the English church from under the pope’s control and placed it under his own rule.

23. Parliament recognized the king as the supreme head of the Church of England by the Act of Supremacy.

24. Thomas Cranmer [Here or Later!?]

25. Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, annulled Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

26. Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn months before his marriage to Catherine of Aragon had been formally annulled.

27. Sir Thomas More, lord chancellor of England, opposed Henry VIII’s attempt to get his first marriage annulled.

28. More was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534 and beheaded in 1535.

29. The six wives of King Henry VIII of England.

30. Changes during Henry VIII’s reign closed monasteries -sold the lands he seized to nobles, wealthy farmers, and merchants to raise money established the Anglican Church -allowed the use of English Bibles -allowed priests to marry

31. Edward VI

32. Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII by his first wife, tried to make England a Catholic nation again.

33. Mary Tudor alienated many of her subjects when she married Philip II, the Catholic king of Spain.

34. She was known as “Bloody Mary” because of the number of people executed during her reign.

36. Elizabeth I followed her half-sister Mary I on the throne as the ruler of England.

37. Elizabeth I adopted a skillful policy of religious compromise. Although she firmly established England as a Protestant nation, she managed to preserve many traditional Catholic beliefs.

38. Sir Francis Drake

39. The arts - particularly literary - flourished during her reign.

40. The Catholic Reformation Aka The Counter Reformation

41. Pope Paul III led the reform of the Catholic Church -appointed scholars and reformers to high church offices -summoned the council at Trent

42. Council of Trent reaffirmed traditional Catholic doctrine called for -better trained priests -reform of church finances and administration

43. Ignatius Loyola founded the Society of Jesus in 1534. The Jesuits had as their object the spread of the church by preaching and teaching.

44. Loyola wrote the treatise Spiritual Exercises, a manual that taught strict religious discipline.

45. The Catholic Church tried to prevent the spread of Protestant ideas by reviving the Inquisition. The Church also published the Index, a list of books Catholics were forbidden to read.

46. The lines between Protestant and Catholic areas were sharply drawn by 1600. Protestant: England Scotland Scandinavia northern Germany Catholic: Italy France Spain Ireland southern Germany