By Kevin Magee, and Cody Phillippe 4 life <3

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Protestant Reformation

• By Kevin Magee, and Cody Phillippe 4 life lt3

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The Protestant reformation

• People were upset with the churches power,
  because they thought it was corrupt.
• In 1517, Martin Luther began to criticize the
  power of the pope and Roman Catholic Church.
• People were upset with the way the Church was
  raising money.
• The Pope hired a German named Tetzel, to perform
  all the unholy tasks for the church.
• People started to believe that there was more
  then one religion to believe in.
• Revenge was sought upon the church for performing
  unholy tasks, and people broke away drastically
  from the Church.

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Martin Luther

• Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany, in 1483.
• He was a monk who criticized the corruption of
  the Church.
• He was the main influence of the Protestant
  Reformation
• Luther was tried and excommunicated due to his
  rebellion on the Church.
• Luther had many supporters in Germany who saved
  his life by hiding him in a castle.
• Luthers reasoning for this was that the pope was
  raising money instead of helping people find
  religion.

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95 Theses

• The 95 theses were written by Martin Luther.
• They were a obvious criticism of indulgences.
• The pamphlet was written in Latin and was not
  released to the general public but was pinned to
  the church door for other scholars to read and
  discuss
• This contained 95 reasons that he felt should
  Martin Luther argued against the church.
• Someone took down the pamphlet and copies it and
  gave it to the general public in Wittenberg,
  which caused the church to outrage.

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Printing of the Bible

• The bible was the first mass produced book.
• The bible was printed by Gutenberg, who also
  invented the printing press.
• This allowed new people to learn the readings of
  the bible
• This bible was written in vernacular, which was
  everyday language
• The bible brought new beliefs into religion which
  normally you could only get from the church
• The bible was originally in Latin, but since it
  has been changed other religions.

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Calvanism

• John Calvin was born in 1509 and was the son of a
  lawyer. He was born in France
• He studied law and was pressured by his father,
  but when he father died he studied religion.
• The same year his father died, he studied Greek
• He became an admirer of Erasmus when certain
  conversion took him into his studies
• He though he was gods chosen instrument to the
  spiritual regeneration of the world.

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The Church Of England

• The English believed in marriage for life
• They did not support divorce and both sides of
  the family had to agree
• This church was among the churches that broke
  from the church of Rome
• The settlement of 1689 was the basis of the
  constitutional position of the church of England
• The history if the church of England from the
  18th century and on has been made better by the
  coexsistince of the Evangelical, the catholic and
  the liberal branches

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Counter-Reformation

• The catholic church was aware of the reformation
• The catholic church had released its own series
  of reforms that balanced real reform with
  reaction to Protestantism
• Many aspects of this movement were genuine
  reforms
• Before Luther, there were widespread impulses for
  reforms in the church
• The counter reformation was the churches battle
  back against the protestant reformation

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The Council of Trent

• The council of Trent played an important part in
  determine the outcome of the reformation
• The council of Trent was a central feature of the
  counter reformation
• Any long term change depended of the attitude of
  the pope in power
• There were 25 sessions in the council of Trent

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The End
Mr. Smith