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The protestan reformation
Definition
The reformation was a religious movement
It began in the first half of the 16th century
It instigated
The division of the Catholic Church
The founding of protestant curches
Causes
They were 5 causes of the Reformation
The church's wealth
High clergy lived a life of luxury
The church
Possessed extensive lands
Taxed the humbled population
It also obtained
Income by carrying out religious sacraments
And from the veneration of
Saints
Virgin Mary
Holy relics
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
These positions providded and income and economic rigths
They were also away of getting rich
The bad example set by the high clergy
The majority occupied positiones for their own gain
They didn't respect
The customs
They represented
or morals
The sell of indulgences
They did this when Church needed money
This helped believers to be forgiven for their sins
The low clergy's luck of training
They did not give much importance to the training
Also, many of them didn't behave appropriately
Luther's break from Rome
Martin Luther was scandalised
By the amount of corruption in the church
He published "95 Theses" in 1517
Criticizing the sell of indulgences
And other bad practices
This marked the beginning of the Protestan Reformation
His main principles were
Faith and God's will
Rejection of the veneration of the Virgin Mary
This includes sacraments
Free interpretation of the Bible
Anybody could read the Holy Bible
This strated the translation of the Bible to some lenguajes
Opposition to the Church owning property
And also support the nobles
The spread of the Reformation
Lutheranism spread rapidly across
Northern Europe
The Low Countries
Denmark
Germany
Scandinavian Peninsula
Other reforms appeared with new doctrines
Jhon Calvin
He spread a type of Protestantism from Geneva in Switzerland
This spread across
England
Scotland
Switzerland
France
The North of the Low Countries
Anglican Church
It was founded the King VIII
Because the Catholic church denied the divorce
In 1534 broke with the Catholic church
And an Act of Supremacy was passed
He appointed himself head of the Church of England
Ultricht Zwingli
He founded the Reformed Church in the city of Zurich
His doctrine
Rejected the authority of the Pope
Proposed abolishing religious imagery and celibacy among priests
