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Chapter 17 Section 4 Notes
Intro:
A. John Calvin and other Reformation leaders began new Protestant
Churches
B. Many Protestant churches began during this period, and many Catholic schools
Are the result of Catholic reforms
I. Calvin Begins Another Protestant Church
A. John Calvin born in France, taught in Switzerland
B. 1536 published a book called Institutes of the Christian Religion
1. Calvin’s ideas about God, Salvation and Human Nature
2. Protestant theology
C. Men and women are sinful by nature
D. Predestination, God has already chosen who would and would not be saved
E. Ideal government was a theocracy controlled by religious leaders
F. Strict religion
1. No bright clothing
2. No card games
3. No drinking
4. No dancing
G. Started his church in Geneva, Switzerland
H. Calvinism Spread
1. In 1559 John Knox spreads the church to Scotland
2. Each city was to be governed by a small group of laymen called
presbyters. This Church became known as the Presbyterians
I. Calvinism spread to:
a. Switzerland
b. Scotland
c. Holland
d. France (Huguenots)
1. Hatred between Catholics and Huguenots became violent
2. France was devout Catholic
3. St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre where 10,000 Huguenots
were killed on August 24, 1572
II. Other Reformers
A. One of the main points to the Protestant Reformation was that the Bible
was the main authority not the Pope
B. The Anabaptist
1. Were people that believed that people should only be baptized at the
age of accountability not because they were members of a church
2. Also taught that the church and state should be separate
3. This group became the:
a. Mennonites
b. Amish
c. Quakers
d. Baptists
III. The Catholic Reformation ( The Counter Reformation)
A. Many remained Roman Catholic
B. The Catholic Reformation was the realization that the Catholic Church was
going to have to look a problems such as the sale of indulgences and
others
C. Council of Trent
1. Met between 1545 and 1563
2. Council of cardinals that agreed on several doctrines
a. Church’s interpretation of the Bible was final
b. Christians need faith and good works for salvation
c. False selling of indulgences was banned
D. Important Catholics of the Counter Reformation
1. Pope Paul III that had cardinals investigate abuses in the church
a. Used the Inquisition courts to punish heresy
b.. Called the Council of Trent
2. Ignatius of Loyola
a. Wrote Spiritual Exercises
b. Started the religious order called the Jesuits
1. Founded superb schools in classical studies and
theology
2. Convert non-Christians to Catholicism
3. Stop Protestantism from spreading