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The protestant reformation - Coggle Diagram
The protestant reformation
Reformation
Began at the first half of the 16th century
caused the division of the Christian Church
into the Protestant Church
Religious movement
Causes
This circumstances
Caused many peasant revolts
Humanists the bad practices
the majority of believers got angry
Causes of the Reformation:
The church's wealth
High clergy lived in luxury
They owned large pieces of land
They received money from people's taxes
They also got profit from
religious sacraments
veneration of holy relics
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
People could buy this positions, that provided:
income
economic rights
The bad example set by the high clergy
People were of the clergy for their own gain
They didn't respect others
The sale of indulgences
The Church sold indulgences
Indulgences were basically forgiveness of God in exchange of money
The low clergy's lack of training
The church didn't give importance to the training of priests
Most of the priests didn't behave appropiately
Luther's break from home
Luther developed his Lutherian doctrine
It's main principles were:
Free interpretation of the Bible
Forgiveness and salvation was based on faith and God's will
Rejection of veneration to
Virgin Mary
saints
holy relics
Oppositions to the Church's propperty
and support nobles to own them
Dates:
1522 Luther translates the Bible into German.
1536 Lutheranism spreads to Denmark and Norway.
1521 the Pope expelled Luther from the Empire
1559-1562 Eradication of the Lutheran groups in Spain.
1517 Luther publishes 95 Theses
Martin Luther was a German priest
He was scandalised by the Corruption in the Church
in 1517 he wrote: 95 Theses
A book where the Church is criticised
This marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation
The spread of the reformation
Lutheranism spread rapidly across northern Europe
Low countries
Denmark
Germany
Countries in the Scandinavian Peninsula
This also diversified and new doctrines appeared
Calvinism (John Calvin)
This doctrine mainly consisted on the idea of predestination from the start of everything
Anglican Church.
This doctrine gave more freedom “romantically” to the Clergy, where they could marry who they wanted and divorce them.
Zwinglianism(Ultricht Zwingli)
This doctrine rejected the authority of the Pope and proposed abolishing religious imagery and celibacy among priests
