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The protestant reformation - Coggle Diagram
The protestant reformation
Causes
The low clergy's lack of training
Church hierarchy did not give much importance to the training of its priests and therefore
The bad example set by the high clergy
The majority of those at the top of the hierarchy occupied positions for their own gain
The church's wealth
The church possessed extensive lands and taxed the humble population
It also obtained income by carrying out religious sacraments
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
Positions provided an income and economic rights
The sale of indulgences
When the church needed money, it sold indulgences
Luther's break from Rome
Free interpretation of the Bible
Priests should be abolished
Anyone could read and interpret the Bible in their own way
Forgiveness and salvation do not depend on the good deeds a person does in life
Rejection of the sacraments, except for baptism and the Eucharist
Opposition to the Church owning property
Times
1517 Luther publishes 95 Theses
1521 The Pope demands that Luther retracts his writings
1522 Luther translates the Bible into German
1536 Lutheranism spreads to Denmark and Norway
1559-1562 Eradication of the Lutheran groups in Spain
The spread of the reformation
The movement
Ultricht Zwingli
A Swiss pastor who founded the Reformed Church in the city of Zurich
His doctrine rejected the authority of the Pope
John Calvin
French theologian
Spread a type of Protestantism from Geneva in Switzerland
The Pope would not give his consent for King Henry VIII
The Catholic Church and the Act of Supremacy was passed
