Causes of the Reformation

Social Cause

• The printing press helped to spread ideas critical of the Church.

• Many leaders viewed the pope as a foreign ruler and challenged his authority

• Merchants and others resented having to pay taxes to the Church.

• Many people found Church practices such as the sale of indulgences unacceptable.

Political Cause

• The printing press helped to spread ideas critical of the Church.

• Many leaders viewed the pope as a foreign ruler and challenged his authority

• Merchants and others resented having to pay taxes to the Church.

• Many people found Church practices such as the sale of indulgences unacceptable.

Economic Cause

• The printing press helped to spread ideas critical of the Church.

• Many leaders viewed the pope as a foreign ruler and challenged his authority

• Merchants and others resented having to pay taxes to the Church.

• Many people found Church practices such as the sale of indulgences unacceptable.

Religious Cause

• The printing press helped to spread ideas critical of the Church.

• Many leaders viewed the pope as a foreign ruler and challenged his authority

• Merchants and others resented having to pay taxes to the Church.

• Many people found Church practices such as the sale of indulgences unacceptable.

The Renaissance values of humanism and secularism led people to question the Church.

• Social Cause

• Political Cause

• Economic Cause

• Religious Cause

Powerful monarchs challenged the Church as the supreme power in Europe

• Social Cause

• Political Cause

• Economic Cause

• Religious Cause

European princes and kings were jealous of the Church’s wealth.

• Social Cause

• Political Cause

• Economic Cause

• Religious Cause

Some Church leaders had become worldly and corrupt.

• Social Cause

• Political Cause

• Economic Cause

• Religious Cause

What invention helped to spread the ideas of Protestant Reformers?

What was a document that could be bought that excused a person from the sins he or she had committed and send them to heaven?

• Indulgence

• Edict

• Purgatory

• Scroll