Reformation Martin Luther

Reformation

By Jonathan Anderson

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Open Ended

What was one of the abuses of the church according to Reformists?

Poll

What do you think was the most important?

• Service not given in local language

• Suppression of ideas

• Selling of Indulgences

• Simony (appointment of priests by pay)

​Leaders of the Reformation

​Martin Luther

• Born 1483 in Germany

• Attends university to study law ​

​Martin Luther

• On his way back from class one day he has a revelation

• He decides to join a monastery to become a monk

​Martin Luther

• As a monk he become increasingly bothered by the difference of the church and the bible

• Particularly the sale of indulgences

• Simony the selling of papal offices

• ​Believes salvation can only be found through faith

Open Ended

Why did Martin Luther decide to become a monk?

Open Ended

Why did he begin to doubt the Catholic church?

​Martin Luther - 95 Theses

• In 1517 he nails his 95 Theses to the door of Castle Church​

• Also sends the list in a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz

• 95 problems he has with the church, claims the Bible not the Pope is the ultimate authority, the Pope has no power in deciding the fate of someone's soul

Open Ended

What do you think will happen next?

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What invention stopped the Church from silencing Martin Luther?

​Martin Luther - Diet of Worms

• 1521 the Church excommunicates Martin Luther

• All of his literature and teaching is banned

• Anyone found helping him would be considered a criminal

​Martin Luther- Wartburg Castle

• He finds sympathetic nobles

• Translates the Bible into language's people know

  Starts Protestant or Lutheran church's ​

​Martin Luther -Peasants War

• In 1524 thousands of Peasants revolt

• They claim that serfdom is unbliblical

• Taxes should be collected for public good not nobles or church ​

• ​Everyone should be able to interpret the bible

• Begins a pattern of religious wars ​

Open Ended

What do you think Martin Luther thought of the Peasant's War?

Multiple Choice

Prior to the Protestant Reformation, the medieval church in western Europe was criticized for

• sponsoring explorations to the Middle East

• allowing the Bible to be printed and distributed to the people

• being too concerned with worldly power and riches

• refusing to sell indulgences to peasants

Multiple Choice

Which action could be considered an effect of the Protestant Reformation?

• posting of the Ninety-five Theses

• decline in the power of the Roman Catholic Church

• sale of indulgences

• end of religious warfare

Multiple Choice

• Sale of indulgences authorized by Pope Leo X to raise money to build St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (1515)

•Ninety-five Theses posted (1517)

•Hearing held at Worms, Germany (1521)

These events are most closely associated with

• Charles V and absolutism

• Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation

• John Locke and the Enlightenment

• Karl Marx and scientific socialism

Open Ended

What is something you found interesting about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation