This is session three of a class I presented regarding the origin of Denominations - Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Protestantism etc.

1. Session 3 – Early Reformers

2.  Brescia, Italy – Paris, France

3.  Abbot of Brescia - 1139
 Preached against wealth of church
 Turned many townspeople against their Bishops
 Banished from Italy by Pope Innocent II
 Fled to Paris and studied under Abelard
 Abelard: philosopher, thinker, & opponent of Bernard of
Clairveaux
 Joined an uprising in Rome to overthrow Papacy
 Referred to the Cardinal College as a “Den of Thieves”

4.  Pope Hadrian IV Pressed Barbarossa for Arnold’s arrest

5.  Burned at the stake and his ashes cast into Tiber river

7.  Peter Waldo of Lyons – founder of the movement
 A contemporary of Francis of Assisi
 Converted to Asceticism via Matt 19:21 – same verse
which sparked the monastic movement 9 cent. Earlier
 Believed in “free” preaching without ordination
 Had some Scripture translated into French
 Ordered by Pope Alexander III not to preach
 He preached anyways based on Acts 5:29

8. Peter Waldo of Lyons

9.  Waldo was excommunicated by Pope Lucius III
 He preached a “back to the Bible” theology
 He preached in the “common language” of the people
 c.f. Arnold of Brescia
Waldo died of natural causes in 1217