Challenge or Expansion

Challenge or Expansion

By Ms. Fitzgerald

​What does this mean?

There were many points in history were religions were challenged by people or faced with certain challenges. These may have caused religions to either split or expand in some way. This can then be the reason for multiple denonminations existing within one religion which can share one overall belief or faith system buy may differ with smaller beliefs, ​practices or rituals. Example: Christianity having Catholic, Protestant, etc.

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​Christianity​

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• ​The Reformation was a period in history when people began to question the teachings of the Catholic Church.

• It was also resulting in people ​challenging the authority of the Pope.

Christianity: The Reformation and The Beginning of The Protestant Tradition

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​When?

• Approx. began October 31st 1517. ​

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Who?

Martin Luther.​

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Martin Luther King​

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Martin Luther​

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Martin Luther

• Catholi​c monk who began a protest to try to reform the church.

• But his disagreements with the church could not be resolved.

• ​Unlike the Catholic and Orthodox belief in seven sacraments, he believed that were was only evidence of two in the bible which were baptism and communion.

What was his concern?

• ​He spoke against Pope Leo X for selling 'indulgences' (Basically, by purchasing an indulgence, an individual could reduce the length and severity of punishment that heaven would require as payment for their sins, or so the church claimed.).

• He composed his “95 Theses" (a document containing his about what was wrong with the church) and nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany.

• Pope Leo X excommunicated him from the Church.​

• Established a new church called ​​The Lutheran Church.

• Followers were called Lutherans but were also known as Protestants because the protested against the Catholic Church.

​What did he do?

What Happened?

• When he left the Catholic Church, many people followed him.

• P​rotestant is an umbrella term for all denominations that formed after the Reformation.

• ​These denominations all have different leaders and different forms of worship.

• Islam: ​Shia and Sunni Muslims, division after the death of Muhammad. (See Islam notes).

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