Protestant Reformation

Time Periods of Ap Euro

Time period 1 (1450 - 1648)

• Renaissance, Exploration, and Reformation

• Printing Press

• 30-40% become Protestant

Time Period 2 (1648 - 1815)

• Absolutism, Enlightenment, Revolution, and Napoleon

Time Period 3 (1815 - 1914)

• Industrialism, Nationalism, and Imperialism

Time Period 4 (1914 - Present)

• World Wars, great Depression, Cold War, Decolonization, and Realignment

“Heretics” before the Protestant Reformation

John Wycliffe

• Belief = Argued that Scripture, not the Pope, is the ultimate authority in Christianity

• Criticism = the wealth and corruption of the Church and its sale of indulgences. Believed the Church had stayed from Christ’s original message and needed to return to biblical simplicity

• Influence = Translate the Bible into English (1380s)

• Dies= 1384

• Churches Response = English Translations were banned in 1408

                                         = 1428 - exhumed his body and burned

Jon Hus 

• Belief = Argued that Scripture, not the Pope, is the ultimate authority in Christianity

• Criticism = the wealth and corruption of the Church and its sale of indulgences. Called for a Church built on faith, humility, and moral reform instead of wealth and power

• Influence = Denounced sale of indulgences and corruption of the clergy. Gave sermons in vernacular language rather than Latin

• Church’s Response:

            - Excommunicated for refusing to recant his teachings

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