Martin Luther's Life
To get away from a rough home life where he was often beaten by his father, Luther did this.
What is went to college?
The first main idea says you get saved by having this in Jesus, not by doing good works.
What is faith?
John Calvin was born in this country in the 1500s before his religious ideas got him into trouble.
What is France?
Calvinism taught that God’s will is this word, meaning your whole life is already planned out before you are born.
What is absolute?
Luther constantly worried about his own soul and where he would go when he died because this deadly disease was killing people all around him.
What is the plague?
Even though he had a hot temper, Luther and his wife looked after this many orphans whose parents died from the plague.
What is 20?
The second main idea says this specific book is the final source of truth, not church leaders or regular people.
What is the Bible?
John Calvin's ideas were heavily changed and influenced by this original German monk.
Who was Martin Luther?
Calvinists believed that God already chose if you were going to this place or not before you were even born.
What is heaven?
All of these arguments and challenges against the Catholic Church led to the creation of these new type of churches.
What are Protestant churches?
Luther argued that this main church leader should not be the one deciding who gets into heaven.
The third main idea says this group of people can be a part of the church, instead of it just being for the rich elites.
Who is everybody?
After escaping jail, Calvin moved to this city in Switzerland where his preaching became super popular.
What is Geneva?
Calvinists firmly believed that the people in the church should be allowed to choose their own what?
What are leaders (or ministers/elders)?
This major peace agreement (treaty) let German kingdoms choose for themselves whether to be Lutheran or Catholic.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?
Luther wanted people to be able to read the Bible in their local language because it was stuck in this language that most people couldn't read.
What is Latin?
Many European kings supported Luther's ideas for religious reasons and for these kinds of reasons to gain more power.
What are political reasons?
John Calvin’s writings inspired his followers to live good lives and to do this at their businesses.
What is work hard?
To prove to their neighbors that they were already chosen to go to heaven, Calvinists made sure to do this in their towns.
What is behave well and/or obey the laws?
Reformers were furious that church bishops were acting like royalty, building massive palaces, and spending tons of tax money on this luxurious item instead of helping the poor.
What is fine art?
The Church was upsetting reformers by selling these certificates to people so they could get into heaven.
What are indulgences?
When the Catholic Church left a kingdom, rulers got to keep these instead of sending the money away to Rome.
What are church taxes?
Calvin was arrested because preaching Protestant ideas in France was considered this illegal crime against the Catholic Church.
What is heresy?
Because church members got to vote for their own leaders, it helped build support for letting people elect these leaders later on in America.
What are political leaders?
After the big peace agreement, this specific half of Germany turned Protestant, while the southern half stayed Catholic.
What is Northern Germany?