Protestant Reformation

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Protestant Reformation
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Background

1. Dissatisfaction with fundamental doctrines
2. Direct relationship
3. Church abuses
4. National states
5. Humanism

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Lutheranism

• Martin Luther
• Monastery
• St. Augustine Paul
• Romans 117 the just shall live by faith
• University of Wittenberg
• John Tetzel sells indulgences
• 95 Theses
• Worms
• Peasants Rebellion
• Scripture
• German
• Two sacraments
• Peace of Augsburg
• N. Germany and Baltic

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Calvinism

• John Calvin
• Luthers writings
• The Institutes of the Christian Religion
• Predestination
• theocracy
• Ulrich Zwingli
• Geneva
• John Knox
• Scotland
• Two sacraments
• Elders
• Switzerland, Dutch Netherlands, Scotland, Germany
• the calling
• Protestant work ethic
• Democracy education

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Anglicanism

• William Tyndale printed English translation
• Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
• Aunt of Charles V
• Act of Supremacy
• Thomas Cranmer Book of Common Prayer
• No Protestant
• Bloody Mary
• Catholic
• Elizabeth I
• unifier
• Episcopal system (govt. of the church by bishops)
• Two sacraments
• Puritans

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The Anabaptists

• Radical
• Rejected infant baptism
• rebaptism
• Persecuted
• Menno Simons
• Mennonites
• George Fox
• Quakers (Society of Friends)

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Summary

• Protestants rejected
• Papal supremacy
• Divine sanction of Roman church
• Monasticism
• Roman Catholic doctrines
• Purgatory
• Transubstantiation
• Invocation of saints
• Veneration of relics
• 3 divisions
• Protestant
• Eastern Orthodox
• Roman Catholic