Powerpoint for Newspaper activity about leaders of the Reformation

1. Reformers Newspaper
• Use the following slides and the pages in your
textbook to help you complete your newspaper
on the Reformation.
• You may report on the topics in a number of
ways:
– Report
– Interview
– Song/rap/poem
– Eye witness accounts

2. The Church’s Problems
& Criticisms
• Priests and bishops were not religious
anymore
• Pope too involved in politics
• Church had grown too rich
• Sale of indulgences
– A document given by the pope that excused a
person from penalties for the sins that he/she had
committed

3. Martin Luther
• Luther troubled by the sale of indulgences
among other practices of the Catholic Church
• Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the
castle church in Wittenberg, Germany on
October 31, 1517 – THE PROTESTANT
REFORMATION BEGINS!!!

4. •Getting to Heaven is based
on Faith not money
•The bible was the only
source of religious truth-not
the Pope
•Get rid of the Pope
•Priests do not have any
special powers
•Anyone can talk to God
through prayer
•Luther translated the bible
from Latin to German
•Said that indulgences
should be banned

5. • Pope pays little attention to the Luther at
first
• Luther attacks the Pope and his threats of
excommunication
• The Protestant Reformation further divided
Germany
• Those who protest the Roman Catholic
Church known as PROTESTANTS!
• Protestants that followed Luther’s teaching
were known as LUTHERANS!
Martin Luther cont…

6. John Calvin
• Calvin taught predestination. This was the idea
that God knew who would be saved even
before they were born. Nothing that people did
during their life would change God’s plan. He
thought it was important to live a good life and
obey God’s laws.
• In 1542 Geneva, Switzerland made Calvin their
religious and political leader.

7. William Tyndale
• Very educated - went to Oxford and Cambridge
University.
• 1523, Tyndale moved to London with the
intention of translating the New Testament into
English, an act that was strictly forbidden. He
passionately believed that the Bible should
determine the practice and doctrine of the
Church and that people should be able to read
the Bible in their own language.

8. Desiderius Erasmus
• Dutch humanist and Catholic priest. Believed
in free will and wrote about it. He wanted
people to have better understanding of one
another. Did not agree with everything Martin
Luther said but did believe in the Protestant
Reformation
• Criticized church rituals stating they did not
focus on teachings of Jesus or devotion to God

9. Political Change leads to
reform…
• Notion of the Renaissance Prince
• Recent War of the Roses created a sense of political
instability for the Tudor dynasty
--Henry VIII
• The significance of a male heir to the Tudors
• Henry VIII stood against the Protestant Reformation and
was proclaimed the “Defender of the Faith” by the pope.
• Henry wanted a boy to ensure a male heir would succeed
him when he died.
• His marriage to Catherine only produced a daughter,
Mary

10. The Reformation spreads to
England
• King Henry VIII seeks an annulment of
his marriage to the Queen – Catherine of
Aragon
• Henry denounces the Roman Catholic
Church creates the Church of England
and establishes his own supremacy over
it – gets his annulment
• 6 wives…

11. England is Catholic, oh wait…
• Henry VIII - 1st Protestant king
• After his death, his daughter, Mary will take
the crown – she is Catholic!!
–The rule of “Bloody” Mary
–tried to change the country back to
Catholicism, killing many Protestants at
the stake
• Mary dies and the crown goes to her half
sister – Elizabeth (Protestant)

12. A Policy of Religious Compromise
• Elizabeth became queen after her sister,
Mary died
–She created reforms that could be
accepted by both Protestants and
Catholics – attacked those who
opposed her
–English replaced Latin as the language
of prayer in England
• Elizabeth’s reign in England is considered
a Golden Age