IWBAT explain the causes and effects of the Protestant Reformation.

1) When is it ok to question people in authority?

2) Has there been a time in your life where you questioned a person in authority? How did it turn out?

Martin Luther vs. Roman Catholic Church

Martin Luther was a law student in Germany

Feared for his Salvation

“He who through faith is righteous shall live.” –Saint Paul

The Dominant power after the fall of the Roman Empire

Had been sole source of knowledge until the Renaissance

Selling of Indulgences

1) How had the Renaissance effected the RCC’s power in Europe?

2) How else has questioning authority, the spread of ideas through literature, and political activism tipped the balance of power?

The Big Split

Luther’s 95 theses

Council of Worms “I am bound by the Sacred Scriptures I have cited…..and my

conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannon and will not recant anything….God help me.”

German translation of the Bible

Lutheranism

Luther believed that once ordinary people were able to read the Bible all would see his new religion as the proper way to worship God

He was wrong……but why?

Calvinism, Anabaptists, Church of England, Eastern Orthodox

Henry VIII

Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded Survived

Church of England

Thomas More loses his head

The Counter Reformation

Council of Trent

Inquisitions

The Thirty Years War