Chapter 17 Section 4 Notes A. John Calvin and other Reformation leaders began new Protestant Churches.
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Chapter 17 Section 4 Notes
A. John Calvin and other Reformation leaders began new
Protestant Churches
B. Many Protestant churches began during this period, and
many Catholic schools Are the result of Catholic reforms
I. Calvin Begins Another Protestant Church
A. John Calvin born in France, taught in Switzerland
Calvin, John (1509-1564)
B. 1536 published a book called Institutes of the Christian Religion
1. Calvin’s ideas about God, Salvation and Human Nature
2. Protestant theology
C. Men and women are sinful by nature
D. Predestination, God has already chosen who would and
would not be saved
E. Ideal government was a theocracy controlled by religious
leaders
F. Strict religion
1. No bright clothing
2. No card games
3. No drinking
4. No dancing
G. Started his church in Geneva, Switzerland
H. Calvinism Spread
1. In 1559 John Knox spreads the church to Scotland
2. Each city was to be governed by a small group of laymen calledpresbyters. This Church became
known as the Presbyterians
I. Calvinism spread to:
a. Switzerland
b. Scotland
c. Holland
d. France (Huguenots)
1. Hatred between Catholics and Huguenots became violent
2. France was devout Catholic
3. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre where 10,000
Huguenots were killed on August 24, 1572
II. Other Reformers
A. One of the main points to the Protestant Reformation was that the Bible was the main authority
not the Pope
B. The Anabaptist
1. Were people that believed that people should only be baptized at
the age of accountability not because they were members of a
church
2. Also taught that the church and state should be separate
3. This group became the:
a. Mennonites
b. Amish
c. Quakers
d. Baptists
III. The Catholic Reformation ( The Counter Reformation)
A. Many remained Roman Catholic
B. The Catholic Reformation was the realization that the Catholic
Church wasgoing to have to look a problems such as the sale of
indulgences and others
C. Council of Trent
1. Met between 1545 and 1563
2. Council of cardinals that agreed on several doctrines
a. Church’s interpretation of the Bible was final
b. Christians need faith and good works for salvation
c. False selling of indulgences was banned
D. Important Catholics of the Counter Reformation
1. Pope Paul III that had cardinals investigate abuses in
the church
a. Used the Inquisition courts to punish heresy
b.. Called the Council of Trent
2. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius Loyola(1491-1556)
a. Wrote Spiritual Exercises
b. Started the religious order called the Jesuits
1. Founded superb schools in classical studies and theology
2. Convert non-Christians to Catholicism
3. Stop Protestantism from spreading
1 = A 2 = J
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