By: Liszet Oliver & Jessica Miller

1. The Protestant Reformation By: Liszet Oliver & Jessica Miller

2. Martin Luther • Martin Luther always worried about going to the wrong place after his death. He devoted himself to the Catholic Church trying to find salvation. • He wrote the 95 theses to explain how he felt about the churches procedures for salvation. • In 1520, Pope Leo X found Martins 95 theses to be heresy. • After he left from the Catholic Church, he form his own church called Lutheran and people came for advice to go to heaven. • Even after his death, his words were still known.

3. The 95 Theses • Martin Luther’s 95 theses stated what was wrong with religious salvation • Tetzel handed out indulgences • Indulgences were payments people made to have their sins forgiven. • Martin Luther tried to get the original copy of the 95 theses back, but it was to late. • The 95 theses swept through out Germany.

4. Calvinism • Calvin studied in places and under various scholars, when he had received a humanist education. • The thought of John Calvin had Zwinglianism reached its fullest development in the theology, political theories, and ecclesiastic. • Calvin created patterns and thought, that would take over western culture throughout the modern period. • By 1538, Calvin began as a lecturer and preacher, but he was asked to go because of theological conflicts. • Through the years, the Institutes of the Christian Religion was filled with lecturing, preaching, and the writing of commentaries, treatises, and various editions.

5. The Church of England • The English Reformation is about having far reaching consequences in Tudor England. • Henry VIII was a Roman Catholic • Henry was also, the head of this church was the pope based in Rome. • In 1536, the real protest in England of what Henry was doing came with the Pilgrimage of Grace. • The church in England was follows the rules in church that are, the pope based in Rome Church services, all were held in Latin Prayers, all said in Latin Bible, written in Latin Priests, and was not allowed to marry.

6. The Council of Trent • The council of Trent was one of the most important councils in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in 1545 to 1563. • The council discussed the matters like the relationship of scripture and tradition, the canon of scriptural books and the doctrines of original sin and justification. • The Vulgate was right and official, they rejected all other versions, that was used by the Catholic Church. • Council was carried out in much the same manner, the first was theologians and canonists • The Council of Trent had defined the differences between the Catholic and Protestant positions.

7. The Counter Reformation • The Counter Reformation was the Catholic Church instituted its own series of reforms that balanced real reform with a strident and conservative reaction to Protestantism. • The Catholic Reformation was a spirit of zeal and also, ardor for the faith, a recognition of abuses in the church. • The Catholic Reformation is also known to as the Counter Reformation. • In 1545, the Counter-Reformation forced Pope Paul III to convene a council in Trent in order to define church doctrine always. • Protestant churches were the protest of the future, and Catholicism that would in centuries cease to be the majority religion in the western world.

8. The Printing of the Bible • Around 1450 ,before beginning his work on the Bible, Gutenberg experimented sheets of paper, small books, like a in simple textbook of Latin grammar. • Gutenberg printed the Bible • More people can read it when they bought it. • Higher literacy rate because of reading the Bible • Churches and monasteries were likely purchase the bible.