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THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
Reformation
Religious movement
Began in
First half of the 16th century
Causes
The bad example set by the high clergy
The majority
At the top of
Hierarchy
Occupied positions
For their own gain
Didn't respect
Custom Morals
They preached
The church's wealth
Church possessed
Extensive lands
Taxed
Humble population
High clergy
Life of luxury
Obtained
Income
Carrying out
Religious sacraments
Veneration of
Holy relics
Saints
Virgin Mary
The low clergy's lack of training
Church hierarchy
Didn't give much importance to
Training of its priests
Many of them
Didn't behave appropriately
The buying and selling of ecclesiastical positions
These positions
Provided Income
Economic rights
To became rich
The sale of indulgences
Church
Needed money
Soo they sold indulgences
Helped believers
To be forgiven
For their sins
Division of
Christian Church
Founding of
Protestant churches
Majority of believers
Were angered
Many peasant revolts occurred
Economic
Religious
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Denounced
Bad practices
The Spread Of The Reformation
New doctrines
John Calvin
Beliefs
Based on
Predestination
Spread
A type of
Protestantism
In Switzerland
Calvinism
Spread across
England
Switzerland
Scotland
France
North of
The Low Countries
French theologian
Ultricht Zwingli
Rejected
Authority of the Pope
Founded the Reformed Church
In Zurich
Proposed
Abolishing
Religious imagery
Celibacy among priests
Swiss pastor
Pope
Not give his consent
King Henry VIII
To divorce
Catherine of Aragón
1534
Broke with
Catholic Church
Act of Supremacy
Passed
Under which
He appointed himself head
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Lutheranism spread
Across
Northern Europe
Denmark
Low Countries
Scandinavian Peninsula
Germany
Luther's Break From Rome
Published
95 Theses in 1517
Criticising
Sale of indulgences Bad practices
By Ecclesiastical hierarchy
Beginning of
Protestant Reformation
Lutheran doctrine
Main principles
Forgiveness Salvation
Not depend on
Good deeds
A person does in life
It depend on
Faith
God's will
Rejection
Veneration
Virgin Mary
Saints
Holy relics
Sacraments
Free interpretation of the Bible
Anyone could
Read Interpret
The Bible
In their own way
Translation
Holy book
Into various languages
Opposition
Church owning property
Support for
Nobles taking over
Church's possessions
Martin Luther
German priest
Scandalised by
Corruption in
The Church
Important dates
1521
Pope demands
Luther have to
Retracts his writing
At the Diet of Worms
He refuses
They excommunicated Expelled from
The Empire
1522
Luther translates
Bible into
German
1517
Luther publishes
95 Theses
1536
Lutheranism spreads
Norway
Denmark
1559-1562
Eradication of the Lutheran
In Spain
