Reformation

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Reformation

Background

- violence

- Humanist ideas

- questioning church

- classical education

- social reform

- poverty

Martin Luther

- 95 Theses

- pope did not have power to releasesouls from purgatory

- Christians only can be saved throughfaith

- indulgences have no place in Bible

- outlawed by Pope Leo X and Charles V

- convinced many to renounce pope'sauthority

- peasants rebelled against Church

Peace ofAugsburg

- each prince decided betweenCatholicism or Lutheranism for theirstates

- Northern chose Lutheran

- Southern chose Catholic

Church

- popes against monarchs for power

- popes wealthy with lavish lives

- indulgences for money

English Reformation

- Queen Elizabeth compromisedbetween Protestant and Catholicpolicies

- break from Church was work of KingHenry VIII

Catholic Reformation

- Pope Paul III

- tried to regain Church's moral authority

- fight Protestant spread

- established council of Trent

- strengthened Inquisition

Persecution

- brought on by extreme religious beliefsat the time

- Jews

- witches