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Reformations/Religious Wars 1500-1600 Ch. 14

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167170102Why did loyal Catholics criticize the 16th century Roman Catholic Church?-increasing corruption -clerical ignorance -absenteeism/pluralism -immorality
167170103Martin Luther-German university professor -Augustinian friar -scriptures=key -indulgences=bad -Ninty-Five Theses -refused to recant
167170104Ulrich Zwingli-Swiss Humanist -Admirer of Erasmus
167170105Main ideas of Protestantism-salvation by faith alone (good works not essential) -God saves those who believe -authority rests in the scriptures -church is not in set place -all are spiritually equal
167170106What Luther and Zwingli disagreed about...Consubstatiation (Zwingly believed it was purely symbolic)
167170107Factors contributing to the appeal of Protestant ideas-anticlericalism -personal nature of religion -thoughtful, reflective approach to scripture -centrality of scriptures -no more ceremonies -easy access to ideas through printing press -increase in ordinary person's religious status
167170108Spread of Reformation-first in Denmark-Norway, then England, France and eastern Europe
167170109Beliefs of anabaptists-inner spiritual transformation -literal following of Christ's commandments -distiction between state/Christian community -pacifism -communal living -religious toleration -induvidualism
167170110. German Peasant War-peasants=discontented due to unfair treatment from nobles and agrarian crisis of 1500s -opposed by Luther, as addressed in Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants -nobility overruled -75,000 peasants die -Reformation lost appeal -peasants economic conditions improved slightly
167170111Protestant thought on marriage-marriage is above celibacy -allow divorce -wife obey husband
167170112Why did Habsburg influence become strong in the 1500s?marriages tied together royal heirs, combining territory Charles V wanted to have a united empire with one Catholic Church within the Habsburg empire
167170113English monarchs/status of religionHenry VIII: initiated Protestant Reformation/Church of England Son: Protestantism continued/refined Mary Tudor: Catholic (killed many Protestants) Elizabeth: Return to Protestantism/Elizabethan settlement required ourward conformity of COE and uniformity in ceremonies
167170114John Calvin-predestination -absolute sovereignty -omnipotence of God/total weakness of humanity -God chose to save believers -made Geneva a model of Morality -Calvinism=official Scottish religion
167170115Factors that led to the adoption of a Calvinist church in Scotland-weakness of Catholic monarchy -independent noble support -John Knox's leadership in abolishing papal authority/Catholic Mass -Calvinist church run by presbytiers (ministers) but not bishops
167170116Council of Trent-improved clerical behavior -more uniform marriage rules
167170117The Institutes of the Christian Religion-John Calvin's book of Calvinism
167170118Edict of Nantes-published by Henry IV -liberty of worship to Hugenots in 150 fortified towns -restored internal French peace
167170119Saint Bartholomew's Day massacreAttack on French Calvinists at marriage between Margaret of Valois to Henry of Navarre, intended to reconcile religious differences. Many hugenots were slaughtered
167170120Politiquesmoderates in France, both Catholic and Hugenot, who wanted to allow Hugenot worship to allow the return of order and a strong monarchy
167170121Beneficeschurch positions which generate revenue and hold implied responsibilites
167170122John Tetzelseller of indulgences
167170123Diet of WormsGerman council called by Charles V to order Luther to rescind his Ninety-Five Theses
167170124Habsburg-Valois Wars1494-1559 control of Italian states helped spread Italian Renaissance ideas
167170125Pope Paul III1534-1549 -supported change in Papal court/made it center of reform movement -established the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office with jurisdiction over the Roman Inquisition
167170126Book of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland...Book of Common Order, by John Knox
167170127Why did Mary Tudor alienate her subjects?-her unpopular marriage to Charles V -her excecution of several hundred Protestants
167170128Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, with jurisdiction over the Roman Inquisition-established by Pope Paul III -committee of six cardinals with judicial authority and power to arrest, imprison, and execute -attacked heresy -published the Index of Prohibited Books
167170129Peace of Augsburg1555 "he who rules, his religion" in Germany
167170130Act in Restraint of Appeals-crucial to Henry VIII's royal dominance -work of Thomas Cromwell -forbade appeals to Rome -allowed king to marry Catherine of Aragon -intended to intimidate the pope
167170131Appeal to the Christian nobility of the German nation-Martin Luther's work -urged German non-church officials to reform church with external pressure: 1) limit Pope's power 2) create a priesthood of all believers 3) criticize the church's corruption -Luther gained followers, increasing anticlericalism

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