Unit 3- Prodestant Reformations and Religious Wars

Prodestant

a Christian who is not Roman Catholic or Eadstern Orthodox

Reformation

a religious revolt against the authority oand certian doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church; a restoration of “true Christianity”

political causes

rulers resented the Church’s claims over civil authority. Nationalists believed the Pope to be a foreign leader

economic causes

rulers envied the wealth of the Church and wanted to confisctae Church property. Some people viewed the Church tithe as too heavy to pay. Nationalists resented the flow of Church taxes going to the papacy in Rome

intellectual causes

Renaissance humanism encouraged people to seek a direct relationship with God. Educators began to doubt the Church’s religious power and authority

church abuses

Wordliness, Nepotism, Simony, and Indulgences

nepotism

appointing relatives as Church positions regardless of ability

simony

Selling of Church positions

sale of indulgences

paying for forgiveness of sin

Babylonian Captivity

A large number of Jewish people were forcibly relocated to the Babylonian Empire to stop the spread of Judaism

Great Schism

The split of the Catholic Church