Ch. 17 sec. 3-4 The Reformation Chart

Martin Luther

• Wrote 95 Thesis against the Catholic Church selling Indulgences, and nailed them (Thesis) to a church door

• Began the Reformation

Friar Johann Tetzel

• Sold Indulgences to pay for the rebuilding of St. Peter’s Basillica (church) in Rome

Pope Leo X

• Issued a decree threatening Luther with excommunication

Lutherans

• Followers of Luther who separated from the Catholic Church

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

• Catholic• Issued the Edict of Worms

declaring Luther an outlaw, and went to war with Protestant Princes

• Created Peace of Augsburg

Protestants

• Christians who belong to non-Catholic Churches• Originated from German Princes protesting

other princes remaining loyal to the Pope.

King Henry VIII

• Got laws to end Pope’s power in England so he could divorce his wife

• Made King head of Church

Queen Elizabeth I

• Set the Anglican Church or Church of England, a mix of Protestant and Catholic

Huldrych Zwingli

• Religious reformer in Switzerland

• Wanted believers to have more control of Church

John Calvin

• Published book on Protestant theology

• Ideas of the “Elect” and “Predestination” – Basis of Calvinism

• Believed government should be a theocracy

John Knox

• Brought Calvinism to Scotland, with community churches governed by Presbyters

Presbyterians

• Followers of Knox’s version of Calvinism

Huguenots

• Followers of Calvin in France

Anabaptists

• Believe a person should be re-baptized when they are old enough to decide as adults

• Persecuted by both Catholics and Protestants

Ignatius of Loyola

• A Catholic reformer• Part of the Catholic

Reformation or Counter Reformation

• Loyola University in Chicago was called St. Ignatius College

Jesuits

• Catholics in the religious order of followers of Ignatius in the Society of Jesus

• Missionaries

Council of Trent