PPT on the Reformation

1. Changing the Christian church in the 1500s

2. Martin Luther
•Law Student
• Entered law to please his
father
• Dissatisfied
•Revelation
• Almost struck by lightning
• Finds salvation in St. Anne
• Becomes a monk
•Justification by Faith
• A person is just through
faith in God

3. Luther's Protest
•Conflict with the church
•Pope Leo X
• St. Peter’s Basilica
•Indulgences:
• Remission of sins through
payment
•John Tetzel
• Church’s agent
•October 31, 1517
• 95 Theses
• Nailed to the church

4. Breaking with
Rome
•Printing of 95
theses
• Mass circulation
•Leo X attempts to
stop Luther
• Condemns his
actions
•1521:
excommunicated
• Formally
denounced and
refused access
•Worms Diet
• Luther refuses
to recant
• Frederick of
Saxony
• German bible

5. Lutheranism
•First Protestant
faith
• Non-Catholic
Christianity
•Faith alone
• No more is
needed to be
saved
•Accessibility
• Local language
•Vocations
• All are members
of the church
•Radical reform
• Peasant uprising
1525
• More
conservative after
uprising

6. Protestantism
Salvation
Religious Authority
The Church
Highest form of
Christian
Catholicism
Salvation
Religious Authority
The Church
Highest form of
Christian

7. Fracturing the New Faith

8. Swiss Reformers
Divisions appear in
the Protestant
movement
Huldrych Zwingli
Switzerland
Complete break from
Catholicism
Theocracy
Defeated by Catholics
1531

9. John Calvin
•The Institutes of the
Christian Religion
• Calvinist
theology
•Predestination
• Omnipotence
•“City of God”
• Consistory
• Daily Lives
•John Knox
• Scotland
• “as they do not
deny God.”

10. Radical
Reformers
•Anabaptists
• Adults
• Freedom
• Persecuted
• Munster
• Zealots
• 1531

11. England's Church
•King Henry VIII
• Needs an heir
• Wants to divorce
Catherine of
Aragon
• Pope refuses

12. •Act of Supremacy
1534
•Catholicism in all
but name
•Henry consolidates
power

15. Reaffirming Catholicism

16. The Council of
Trent
•Italy 1545-1563
•Reform Catholic
Church
• Latin bible
• Church =Bible
• No more
indulgences
• Seminaries

17. The Inquisition
•Church Court
• End heresy
• Censorship
•Index of Forbidden
Books

18. Spreading
Catholicism
•Ignatius of Loyola
•Jesuits
• Charity
• Education
•Missionaries

19. A Divided Europe
•Charles V
•Peace of Augsburg
•Protestant North
•Catholic South
•Religious Warfare
• St.
Bartholomew’s
Day Massacre

20. 1485 - 1603

21. Henry Tudor’s victory
over Richard III at the
Battle of Bosworth
The end of the War of
the Roses

22. Married Elizabeth of
York
Three children:
Arthur
Margaret
Henry
Reigned from 1485 until
his death in 1509

23. Arthur should have
been next but he died
young
His younger brother,
Henry, was next in line
Arthur’s widow,
Catherine of Aragon
became Henry’s first
wife

24. He wanted a son and heir
to the throne
He married six times
Three children:
Mary
Elizabeth
Edward

25. In 1547 he became king
when he was only nine
years old
He reigned with the help of
his advisors
Illness caused him to die
after only six years

26. Great granddaughter of
Henry VII
Edward VI wanted her to
be queen
She was for only nine
days

27. Unpopular
Married Prince Phillip of
Spain
No children
Reigned for five years
(1553 to 1558)

28. A strong ruler with the
courage of her father
Some people think she
was the greatest
monarch
Never married
She ruled for 45 years

29. As Elizabeth had no
children, the crown
passed on to the Stuart
family
In 1603 James I became
king