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  • The Black Death
  • Scientific Advances which contradicted the Church
  • The Corruption within the Catholic Church

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  • All Christians were Roman Catholic
  • The [REFORM]ation was an attempt to REFORM the Catholic Church
  • The Reformation caused a split in Christianity

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  • Martin Luther
  • John Calvin

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Puritan

Presbyterian

When England returns to

Catholicism, Puritans will need

A place to go!

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  • He criticized indulgences: buying forgiveness of sins
  • Wrote 95 theses (95 complaints) about the Roman Catholic Church

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  • Anti-Catholic
  • Influenced by Martin Luther
  • Believed in a purified approach to life.

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  • Some Local German Churches accepted Luther’s ideas
  • Lutheranism was formed
  • The reformers came to be known as [PROTEST]ants - Protestants

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Review:

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  1. Why were Martin Luther’s and John Calvins’s followers called Protestants?
  2. What are Indulgences and who was selling them?
  3. Why did Calvin and Luther object to the buying and selling of Indulgences?

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