The Reformation How did we get here?

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The ReformationHow did we get here?
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Church vs. King Struggle for dominance climaxes
in the 13th C with the Crusades
Church has supremacy over all other institutions
Paternalistic, Divine right of Kings
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Religious Side- Reforming Zeal
Desire for reform has an internal and external
focus
Babylonian Captivity
Great Schism
Expansion of the Papal states
Church is losing Prestige and power
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European Overseas Expansion
Conversion of the pagans
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Impact

• Increase in wealth, greed, corruption, lack of
  spiritual leadership
• Expansion of temporal power of the pope and the
  church
• Church has become a political entity
• Focus is now material and political rather than
  spiritual leadership
• Average person is looking for more and better
  spiritual guidance from the church

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Early Reformers

• Challenged the basis to achieve salvation
  salvation directly from God through faith
• Make the bible available to read in the
  vernacular
• Supported the introduction of the lay people into
  the ceremony of sacrament
• Condemned as heretics

John Wycliffe
John Hus
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Temporal or Political Side
Birth of Towns and Trade
Urbanization and development of the merchant class
New power structures
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• Nobility moves to the city centre
• State loyalties develop
• Cities become the centre of money and power

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Impact

• Nobility looking to increase temporal power
  especially in the Germanic states
• See benefit of reducing the Popes influence with
  a state
• Political support for Protestant Reformation

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Textbook Work

• Read pages 30-33
• Take point form notes on Luthers Crisis of
  faith Indulgences 95 theses Development of
  Lutheran ideas Diet of Worms
• Take point form notes on the social and political
  impacts of the Reformation