Traditions & Encounters: Chapter 24 Notes
CHAPTER 24: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE --- MARTIN LUTHER / LUTHERANISM 1517, posted 95 Theses on church door ? started Protestant Reformation ?Denounced sale of indulgences of Roman Catholic church? Became popular because of printing press ? spread his work farther than before ? beginning of Lutheranism [belief that faith should lead to heaven] ANGLICANISM England King Henry VIII wanted to divorce wife > Roman Catholic Pope said no > VIII made a new church with him at the top but everything was same 1560, England left Roman Catholicism CALVINISM Made by John Calvin 1530s Believed that people should go into heaven only if theyre predestined CATHOLIC REFORMATION Council of Trent + Society of Jesus Meant to: clarify differences between Catholicism + Protestants