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THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
Definiton
16th century
It instigated the division of the Christian Church and the founding of protestant churches
Causes
The low clergy's lack of training
not importance
to the training of its priests
not have
behave appropriately
The bad example set by the high clergy
not respect
the customs
morals that they preached
the majority
occupied positions for their own gain
The church's wealth
The high clergy lived a life of luxury
Church
possessed extensive lands
taxed the humble population
obtained income by
carrying out religious sacraments
from the veneration of
holy relics
saints
the Virgin Mary
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
positions provided
an income
economic rights
were therefore a way of getting rich
The sale of indulgences
when the church needed money, it sold indulgences
Luther's break from Rome
God's will
do not depend on the good works that a person does in life
it depends on faith and the will of God.
Opposition
Church owning property
support for the nobles taking over the Church's possessions
Free interpretation of the Bible.
he initiated the translation of the holy book into various languages
Priests should be abolished because anyone could read
Sacraments
Rejection of the veneration
saints
holy relics
Rejection of the sacraments
except
baptism
Eucharist
The spread of the reformation
Ultricht Zwingli
was a Swiss pastor who founded the Reformed Church in the city of Zurich
proposed
abolishing religious imagery
celibacy among priests
John Calvin
was a French theologian who spread a type of Protestantism from Geneva in Switzerland
Calvinism spread
across Switzerland
and to England (Puritans)
Scotland (Presbyterians)
France (Huguenots)
the north of the Low Countries
Henry VIII
Pope would not give his consent for King, to divorce Catherine of Aragón
in 1534
he broke with the Catholic Church
the Act of Supremacy was passed
