The church's reaction to the Reformation
Counter Reformation
Who became more powerful the church or the state?
State
Other than the printing press what did other "jobs" became easier for the townspeople to do
New farming technologies helped make farming faster and easier to complete which produced more crops
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
Influential philosopher and theologian and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism
One cause of the Reformation
The printing press help spread ideas
List of books that Catholics were forbidden to read
Index
How was King Henry VIII a big impact on the reformation?
He became a part of the reformation to get out of the church and leave divorce wife
Who was John Calvin?
Set up the organization of the Protestant church.
What did the church abuse?
The Church was very wealthy but still charged money for all of its services
Excommunication
Being put out of the church and cut off from sacraments
What were power struggles between The Pope and The King?
Taxes
Land
Money
Papal Appointments
These things were used to help build cathedrals in Europe and were sold by the church
Indulgences
Who was Henry VIII?
Wanted a Divorce so he broke from the Catholic Church
Humanism
Questioning the church authority
Describe the towns in Europe during the Reformation
Dirty, filled with everyone's bodily fluids and garbage that they would throw out their windows and doors into the gutters that overflowed
How did Europe become politically fragmented?
Difference in religious
What did the money from sacraments pay for?
It paid for the church leaders extravagant lifestyles
What did Pope Paul III do?
Part of the counter-reformation fixed abuses in the church and revived the moral authority
Pope vs Monarchs
Monarch tried to remove the pope and got excommunicated
How did peoples lives improve during and after the Reformation?
They had freedom from the church and all of the power it had over them and could figure out what they actually believed instead of a priest telling them what to believe
What were the impacts of the reformation?
Europe became divided. The Reformation had a lasting impact on the europian politics. People questioned the church
How did religious wars help the economy?
Religious wars created a need for new goods causing stimulation to the economy
Who was Martain Luther?
German monk wrote 95 theses
Explain how the 95 theses caused the Reformation
It showed people how the church was being unfair and hiding information about the bible from them.