Ch. 17 sec. 3-4 The Reformation Chart
Feb 24, 2016
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