Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Reformation
- Reasons for the reformation
- Tithe: 1/10 of income - tax pay to Catholic Church
- Nepotism: Giving church positions to
family and friends even if they are
unqualified.
- Simony: buying and selling church positions
- Pluralism: have two or
more church positions
- Sale of Indulgence: buying your way
into heaven, by buying a special
indulgence from the pope so you
can go straight to heaven
- Immoral Clergy: living bad lives, having mistresses and children
- Illiterate Clergy: can't read or write
- Absenteeism: bishop is absent from his
diocese due to pluralism/living a good
life at the king's castle
- Jean Calvin
- About Jean Calvin
- Born in France
- believed the catholic church was corrupt
- French protestant (huguenots) were persecuted in
France so Calvin and his followers fled to Geneva in
Switzerland
- Geneva - city of God
- Calvin's religion is presbyterianism
- Calvin wrote a book called 'The Institutes of the Christian Relgion'
- Calvin's Beliefs
- 1. Predestination: God decided before you were born
who will be saved to heaven and who will be domed
to hell.
- 2. One sacramemt which is Batism
- 3. Married Clergy
- 4. Church services in the vernacular
- 5. Bible is the only source of god's will
- 6. Presbyterian churches have no decoration
- Religious laws of Calvin's church
- Alcohol, swearing, dancing/music, gambling were banned
- Attendance at Sunday church was compulsary
- People had to dress simply and modestly
- Religious Beliefs
- Catholic
- 1. 7 sacraments
- 2. Clergy can not marry
- 3. Belief in god and good work
can save a person's soul
- 4. Mass in Latin
- 5. Transubstantiation - bread and wine = body and blood
- 6. Churches have lots of decoration
- 7. Bible should be interpreted by
priests for the people
- Luther
- 1. 2 sacraments: baptism and eucharist
- 2. Married clergy
- 3. Justification by faith alone.
- 4. service in the vernacular
- 5. Consubstantiation - bread and wine = body and bood
- 6. Plain, undecorated churches
- 7. Everyone should read the bible for themselves = only
source of faith
- Calvin
- 1. 1 sacrament; baptism
- 2. Married clergy
- 3. Presbyterianism
- 4. Service in the vernacular
- 5. Bread and wine stayed bread and wine
- 6. Plain, undecorated churches
- 7. Everyone should erad the bible
themselves = only source of faith
- The Protestant Reformation in England
- The King's Great Matter
- Henry the VII wanted to divorce his wife
Catherine of Aragon because he didn't
have a male heir.
- He wanted to marry Ann Boleyn.
- The pope would not grant Henry an
annulment (invalid marriage)
- Henry passed the Act of Supremacy which made him the head of the church of England.