Reformation

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Reformation

• What do you think this time period is about?

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Grievances

• Create your own grievances, or complaints, about
  Rancocas Valley.
• What are you unhappy about? What do you want to
  reform?
• You must create at list of at least 8 grievances!
  Please title your document and sign your names.

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What did People believe at the Start of the 16th
Century?

• If you died with a dirty Soul you would go to
  either Purgatory or straight to hell. If you died
  with a clean soul you would go to Heaven
• You had to go to Church and get the Priest to
  clean your Soul.
• You could earn time out of purgatory by going on
  a pilgrimage or purchase an indulgence

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Causes of the Reformation

• Renaissance emphasized individual ideas and
  question authority
• People disliked Popes control over them
• People angry about church taxes

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Problems with the Catholic Church

• Leaders were corrupt
• Popes spent on personal pleasures and wars!
• Priests and monks- uneducated, married, gambled,
  and drank!

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A Catholic Church
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Clothes worn by Catholic Priest in 16th Century
Notice the image of Christ
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Catholic Church
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Martin Luther

• German monk
• Took a stand against indulgences
• Indulgence a pardon release sinner from
  performing penalty (aka prayer) buy your way to
  heaven
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vEFqWnEpZvjs (844)

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The 95 Theses

• Formal statements attacking the indulgences
• Tacked Theses to a Castle church door and invited
  others to debate him
• Printing press- spread word
• Beginning of Reformation- a movement for
  religious reform

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Luthers Three Main Teachings

• (1) Salvation only by faith and good works
• (2) Church teachings should be based on Bible-
  not Pope and traditions
• (3) All people with faith were equal- people do
  not need the Priests to interpret the Bible

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A Protestant Church
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Clothes Worn by Protestant Vicars (Priests)
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Protestant Altars
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What other changes took place in Protestant
Churches?
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Response to Luther

• Pope Leo Xs Threat excommunication Luther
  threw decree in fire!
• Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
• put Luther on trial
• Luther and outlaw and heretic
• burn books
• no one feed him
• Lutherans- followers of Martin Luther

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Peasants Revolt and Germany at War

• Peasants want an end to serfdom- raid and
  pillage Luther doesnt support them
• German princes- some with Luther, some with Pope
• The protesting princes became known as Protestants

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Protestant- Christians who belong to
non-Catholic Churches

• Denominations
• Baptist 
• Anglican 
• Calvinist
• Lutheran
• Methodist   
• Pentecostal

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Effects of the Reformation

• Protestantism flourished in Europe
• Religion no longer united Europe
• As the Churchs power declined- individual
  monarchs and states increased their power.