7 Renaissance and Reformation
7 Renaissance and Reformation
7 Renaissance and Reformation
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REFORMATION
•PROTESTANT REFORMATION
POWER OF THE CHURCH BECOMES
CHALLENGED LATE 1400S
• MAJOR CAUSE OF THESE PROTESTS – INDULGENCES: It was a CRITICAL event or turning point that made people
leaving form the catholic church. Indulgences is an action of blessing. Church was granting giving out the indulgences. Church
said that of church granted the indulgences to the person, that person’s time spending in purgatory afterlife, would be reduced.
church sold indulgences to people and earned money. _+ people started to doubt church’s authority to giving permissions to
such things as granting indulgences, schism, excommunication, and more. _
• HOWEVER, PEOPL ETHOUGHT THAT SALVATION OR INDULGENCE IS IN GOD’S DOMAIN NOT CHURCH. NO WHERE IN BIBLE OR
ANY KIND OF SACRED WRITINGS ARE SAYING THAT CHURCH HAS AN AUTHORITY TO GIVE INDULGENCES TO PEOPLE.
• Making people paying money to buy an indulgence worsen the situation.
• CHURCH STARTS TO SELL THEM, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED FOR GOOD DEEDS (CRUSADES)
• People started to leave from the catholic, as the mistrust(to much power of church ex. Schism) toward the catholic church
growing.
• MARTIN LUTHER – OPPOSED INDULGENCES, POPE HAD NO AUTHORITY TO RELEASE SOULS FROM
PURGATORY, ONLY SAVED (SALVATION) THRU FAITH / WROTE HIS 95 THESIS – He was a monk.
Catholic Church. Wrote 95 arguments and the major topic was about indulgences of the church.
• PEASANTS REVOLT IN GERMANY OVER THE SOCIAL ORDER AND LUTHER’S RESPONSE?????? For
better opportunity: jobs, land, and more peasants revolted In religious chaos, they protest for
themselves right, However, Martin Luther didn’t help them. Luther thought that he don’t have to
involve in social problem, but not religious problem.
• JOHN CALVIN – ALSO OPPOSED INDULGENCES, SALVATION BELIEVED IN PREDESTINATION (SAINTS
AND SINNERS) / ESTABLISHED GENEVA IN SWITZERLAND AS A THEOCRACY – CALVANISM /
PROTESTANT
• PEACE OF AUGSBURG – GERMAN PRINCES DECIDE RELIGION TO BE FOLLOWED IN THEIR LANDS –
WITHOUT INTERFERENCE : People can choose what religion they wanted to believe in.
• Predestination: god knows whether what he oir she will become after th times
• All Catholics are Christians but not all Catholics aer catholic.
SECTION 4
REFORMATION IDEAS SPREAD
• THE COUNCIL OF TRENT – CALLED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECTING THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN THE CHURCH
• Appointed by the church to address the problem of the church and get the right resolution in order to solve the
problem of the catholic church. MADE BY HIGH RANKING CHURCH CLERGY MEMBERS AROUND TGE EUROPE.
• 1540 CHURCH RECOGNIZES THE JESUITS(SIMILAR TO MONK HELPED CATHOLIC FAOTH SPREADING AROUND THE
WORLD.) – role was to defend and spread the catholic church
• ANABAPTISTS – RADICAL RELIGIOUS ORDER WHO REJECTED INFANT BAPTISMS
• INSISTING THAT BABIES AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO DON’T HAVE A STRENGTH TO MAKE A CHOICE, ARE ALMOST
FORCED TO BE A CATHOLIC, AND GOT BAPTISM WITHOUT A CHOICE.
• THERE ARE SO MANY GROUPS THAT WERE AGAINST THE CATHOLIC IN THIS ERA.
• DURING THE HEIGHT OF RELIGIOUS PASSION - CHRISTIANITY (1450 – 1750),
BELIEF IN MAGIC – AIDED BY THE DEVIL, AND WITCHCRAFT WAS STRONG
• STARTED BECAUSE OF THE DECREASE OF PEOPLE BELONGS TO THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH. CHRISTIANS AND CHURCH SAID THAT SO MANY PEOPLE
ARE LEAVING THE CHURCH BECAUSE DEVIL IS BEHIND THEM. GRADUALLY
EVOLVED INTO WITCHCRAFT AND PEOPLE USED THIS TO MURDER CERTAIN
PEOPLE THAT HINDERS ONE’S PURPOSE OR GOAL. SOMETIMES IT
HAPPENED BECAUSE OF THE JEALOPUSHY AND HATES BETWEEN THE
PEOPLE.
• Science has evidence and religion has faith. These two different topics have really went into head to head in the era of the
renaissance.