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What did People believe at the Start of the 16 th Century?

What did People believe at the Start of the 16 th Century?. If you died with a dirty Soul you would go to either Purgatory or straight to hell. You had to go to Church and get the Priest to clean your Soul. If you died with a clean Soul you would go to heaven.

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What did People believe at the Start of the 16 th Century?

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  1. What did People believe at the Start of the 16th Century? • If you died with a dirty Soul you would go to either Purgatory or straight to hell. • You had to go to Church and get the Priest to clean your Soul. • If you died with a clean Soul you would go to heaven.

  2. What did People believe at the Start of the 16th Century? • If you went on a Crusade or a Pilgrimage you could earn time out of Purgatory • You could buy a special letter from the Pope called an Indulgence which was like a get out of jail for free card but for Purgatory.

  3. Causes of the Reformation • Corruption of Church: simony, nepotism, indulgences, morality • Renaissance humanismglorification of humanity not Church tradition • Declining prestige of papacy—Avignon, Great Schism, papal involvement in secular matters

  4. Pietism—direct relationship between individual and GodWycliffe and Huss • Secular rulers resented power of pope and clergy • German princes resented power of HRE Charles V • Printing press

  5. Goals of the Reformation • Aimed to reform the entire institution of the Church. • improve the moral lives of the Clergy. • undermine the Papal claim to supreme authority. • asserted the political power and importance at the national level.

  6. Copy of an inexpensive indulgencesold by Tetzel Translation: "In the authority of all the saints,and in compassion towards thee,I absolve thee from all sins and misdeeds,and remit all punishment for ten days." Johannes Tietzel

  7. St. Peter’s BasilicaVirtual Tour • http://www.ewtn.com/gallery/sp/sp1.htm

  8. Does an individual have the “free will” to have personal views about God, or does a religious leader such as a pope have the right to say how we should think about God?

  9. Summary • In general, what would you consider to be the causes of the Reformation?

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