2. Diagnostic Assessment (5 Minutes)
1. Create a list of reasons why you believe that
people began to speak out against the church
2. What changes do you think people felt
needed to be put forth?
3. Essential Question and Learning Goals
Essential Question: What social implications did secularization have
on society?
Learning Goals:
1. Identify major reformers of this period
2. Describe the religious beliefs of each reformer
3. Students will be able to compare and contrast two sects of the
Protestant faith
5. Zwingli
- Influences:
◦ Christian Humanism
◦ Martin Luther
- Openly attacked abuses of the Catholic Church
- Emphasized importance of a more personal faith of early
Christianity
- Killed in war between Swiss Protestants and Catholics (1531)
6. Calvin
- Publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
◦Ideas about God, salvation, and human nature
- Idea of Predestination
◦“God has known since the beginning of time who
will be saved”
- Men and women are sinful by nature
7. Brief– Institutes of the Christian Religion
(10 Minutes) [Close Reading Activity]
1. PASS OUT DOCUMENT TO STUDENTS
In 1536 John Calvin published the first edition of his major work, Christianae religionis institutio (Institutes of the
Christian Religion).The book explained the essentials of the Christian faith from a Protestant perspective for
common readers, not theologians. Calvin asserted that the only spiritual authority is both the New Testament and
the Old Testament (the Christian name for the Hebrew Bible). According to Calvin, the all-knowing and ever-
present God had determined, from the beginning of time, who was to be saved and who was to be damned. All
people, he felt, were sinful by nature and could never achieve salvation (forgiveness of sins by God) through their
own efforts. God had therefore selected a few people, called the "elect," for salvation. The elect were to lead
others, who had not been chosen by God, toward salvation. This concept was later called "predestination," but
Calvin himself did not use the term. Calvin taught that the purpose of life was to strive to know or understand
God as well as possible and then to follow God's will. This could be done only through faith (acceptance of truth
without questioning), by which people pursue union with Christ, the embodiment of God on Earth. This faith
required them to strive to live a moral life, out of hope that they were among the elect chosen by God. Institutes
became the most widely read and influential work of theology in the Reformation period.
2. Directions can be found on document
◦ What were the main ideas of the document?
◦ Who were the “elect?”
◦ What was the impact of this work?
http://www.enotes.com/topics/john-calvin-131423
8. Calvin (cont.)
- Calvinism
◦ “A body of religious teachings based on the ideas of the Reformer
John Calvin”
- Calvin’s ideal government: Theocracy
- “Government controlled by religious leaders”
- Everyone attended religion class
- No bright clothing
- No card games
- Heretics would be burned at the stake
9. John Calvin Film Clip (2 Minutes)
Questions to keep in mind while watching:
1. What did Calvin study in college before becoming a theologian?
2. What language did he learn that enabled him to study the New
Testament?
3. Where did he publish his famous work, Institutes of the Christian
Religion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivVAcg5pyI
10. Calvin’s Ideas Spread
- John Knox
◦ Scottish Preacher Brought Calvin’s ideas to Scotland
◦ Created sect of Presbyterians
◦ “A member of a Protestant church governed by presbyters (elders) and
founded on the teaching of John Knox”
◦ Calvinism becomes Scotland's official religion
- Other reformers to adopt Calvinist church organization:
◦ Swiss
◦ Dutch
◦ French
11. Anabaptists
- “Baptize again”
- People who were baptized as children Baptized again as adults
◦ When they are old enough to decide to be Christians
- Beliefs:
◦ Church and state should be separate
◦ Refused to fight in war
◦ Shared possessions
- Influenced:
◦ Mennonites, Amish, Quakers
12. Anabaptist Video Clip (2:36 Minutes)
Questions to keep in mind when watching
video:
1. What were their beliefs?
2. Why did Zwingli and Luther reject them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skv0bs_-K9I
13. Formative Assessment (7-10 Minutes)
- Complete Graphic Organizer– “Formation of Protestant
Sects” Use page 491 of your textbook as a reference
- Individual writing assignment
◦Compare and contrast two sects of Protestantism– 5-7
sentences (5-10 minutes)
◦Write response on separate sheet of paper
15. Summative Assessment (7-10 Minutes)
- Individual writing assignment
◦Compare and contrast two sects of
Protestantism– 5-7 sentences
◦Write response on separate sheet of
paper
