HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lightning, Ninety-Five Theses, Magisterial Reformation
19/10/15
Lecture 8
The Reformation
MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546)
WORMS (1521)
SPEYER (1529)
SCHNMALKALDIC LEAGU (1531)
AUGSBURG (1555)
U. ZWINGLI (1484-1531)
JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564)
HUGUENOTS
• Golden age of Apostolic church
• Acts of churchmen
• Revolution Reformation
• How the individual mind and spirit work together
• Words that could be written or spoken
• People like Erasmus challenged the church but began to reconsider any platforms of
church and religion (undermined structure)
• Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched
• Erasmus undermined religious text
• Period of Babylonian captivity and Schism—happiness
• Approach God directly without going through a Priest, offered stability as well as
comfort—lack of moral compass
• Was’t a aidet that Luthe sueeded i Gea
Germany was many states, not unified
Holy Roman Empire
Jealousy and ambition of priests played into old religion
When revolution began it could be adopted in small places until it grew into a
large movement
Jealousy of princes towards Holy Roman Emperor
Luther ould’e had a hade tie i a uified out
MARTIN LUTHER:
• Born to protestants
• Quite close to soil
• Father wanted to cement social mobility (go to law school)
• Monastery allowed him to find spiritual comfort
• By practicing he was supposed to find comfort ut did’t
• Says that everything changed when he was struck by lightning (he promised if he lived
he would become a monk, so he did)
• Then he became a great scholar, after deciding not to sleep much at night but only study
• Feelings of inadequacy and guilt
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Document Summary
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