Reformation Review

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Reformation Review
• Criticisms of the Catholic Church
• Too secular (focus on politics, not religion)
• Corrupt (focus on economic wealth, not religion)
• Protestants reform Christianity
• Martin Luther – Lutheranism
• John Calvin – Calvinism
• Henry VIII & Elizabeth I –
The Anglican Church
Compare Protestant
Religions
Use p. 491 of your textbook to complete a Venn diagram
comparing Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism.
Anglicans
The Counter Reformation
• In response to the Protestant
Reformation, the Catholic church
started it’s own movement to make
changes.
• Catholics wanted to keep people
true to the Catholic faith.
• The movement was also known as
the Catholic Reformation.
Catholic Reform in the
Counter Reformation
• Jesuits – A religious order that focused on
founding schools, converting nonChristians, and stopping the spread of
Protestantism.
Catholic Reform in the
Counter Reformation
• The Inquisition – an institution for investigating and stopping
acts of heresy
• Heresy - beliefs or opinions that went against the church
• Punishments of the inquisition:
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Wearing a brightly colored X on your clothing
Pilgrimage
Fine
Imprisonment
Torture
Death by burning
The Inquisition
The Inquisition
Inquisition Torture
Catholic Reform in the
Counter Reformation
• Pope Paul III
• Formed the Jesuits
• Created a council to investigate the selling of indulgences
• Used the Inquisition to seek out heresy and assert the authority of
the Pope
• Led the Council of Trent, 1545-1563
• Rulings of the Council of Trent
• The Church’s interpretation of the Bible was final. Substituting
your own interpretation was heresy.
• Christians are not saved by faith alone, but also by good works.
• Church tradition was equally powerful as the Bible.
• Indulgences were expressions of faith.
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