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1.THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
1.1.CAUSES
The low clergy's lack of training
The bad example set by the high clergy.
The church's wealth.
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions.
The sale of indulgences.
1.2.LUTHER'S BREAK FROM ROME
The German priest Martin Luther was scandalised by the amount of corruption in the Church.
He published 95 Theses in 1517
resulting in the Lutheran doctrine. His main principles were:
Forgiveness and salvation do not depend on the good deeds a person does in life, but on faith and God's will.
Rejection of the veneration of the Virgin Mary, saints and holy relics
Free interpretation of the Bible.
Opposition to the Church owning property
1.3.THE SPREAD OF THE REFORMATION
Lutheranism spread rapidly across northern Europe
The movement also diversified and other reformers appeared with new doctrines:
Ultricht Zwingli was a Swiss pastor who founded the Reformed Church in the city of Zurich
John Calvin was a French theologian who spread a type of Protestantism from Geneva in Switzerland
The Pope would not give his consent for King Henry VIII to divorce Catherine of Aragón
Short definition
It was a religious movement
began in the first half of the 16th century.
