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THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION - Coggle Diagram
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
LUTHER'S BREAK FROM ROME
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
ejection of the veneration of the Virgin Mary, saints and holy relics
Free interpretation of the Bible
Opposition to the Church owning property and 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.
1522 Luther translates the Bible into German.
1536 Lutheranism spreads to Denmark and Norway.
1559-1562 Eradication of the Lutheran groups in Spain.
CAUSES
The church's wealth.
high clergy lived a life of luxury
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
positions provided an income and economic rights, and were therefore a way of getting rich
The bad example set by the high clergy
the top of the hierarchy occupied positions for their own gain
The low clergy's lack of training
church hierarchy did not give much importance to the training of its priests
The sale of indulgences
when church need money , they sold indulgences, through which it helped believers to be forgiven for their sins
THE SPREAD OF THE REFORMATION
new doctrines
John Calvin
French theologian who spread a type of Protestantism from Geneva in Switzerland
King Henry VIII
in 1534 he broke with the Catholic Church
the Act of Supremacy was passed
appointed himself head of the Church of England or Anglican Church
Ultricht Zwingli
was a Swiss pastor who founded the Reformed Church
authority of the Pope and proposed religious imagery
