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THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION - Coggle Diagram
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
CAUSES
The low clergy's lack of training
The church hierarchy
gave no importance to the training of its priests
Inappropriate behaviour
The bad example set by the high clergy.
They occupied positions for their own gain
No respect towards the customs or morals that they preached
The church's wealth
high clergy lived a life of luxury
It possessed extensive lands
It taxed the humble population
It obtained income
by carrying out religious sacraments
from the veneration of
holy relics
the Virgin Mary
Saints
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
They provided
income
economic rights
A way of getting rich
The sale of indulgences
When the church needed money
Example
Construction of the new Saint Peter's Basilica
It sold indulgences
Believers were forgiven for their sins
It angered the majority of believers
Many peasant revolts
they demanded reforms
Religious
economic
Humanists
denounced the bad practices
no action was taken to resolve the situation.
Such as: Erasmus of Rotterdam
LUTHER'S BREAK FROM ROME
What marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation?
The German priest Martin Luther
was scandalised by the amount of corruption in the Church
He published 95 Theses
in 1517
he criticised
the sale of indulgences
other bad practices carried out by the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
Lutheran doctrine
Free interpretation of the Bible
Priests should be abolished
anyone could read and interpret the Bible in their own way
he initiated the translation of the holy book into various languages
Forgiveness and salvation depend on faith and God's will
not as in Catholism where
it depends on the good deeds a person does in life
Rejection of the veneration of
Virgin Mary,
Saints
Holy relics
Rejection from the sacraments
Except
baptism
Eucharist
Opposition to the Church owning property
support for the nobles taking over the Church's possessions
IMPORTANT DATES
1517
Luther publishes 95 Theses
1521
The Pope demands that Luther retracts his writings
at the Diet of Worms
a general assembly of the Holy Roman Empire held in Worms,Germany .
He refuses, therefore
he is excommunicated
officially excluded from participation in the Christian Chruch
he is expelled from the Empire
1522
Luther translates the Bible into German
1536
Lutheranism spreads to Denmark and Norway.
1559-1562
Eradication of the Lutheran groups in Spain
DEFINITION
Religious movement
It began in the first half of the 16th century
It incited
the division of the Christian Church
the founding of protestant churches
