The protestant

Christian Humanism

• Christian Humanism
• Christian humanism regards humanist principles like universal human dignity and individual freedom and the primacy of human happiness as essential and principal components of, or at least compatible with, the teachings of Jesus
• Desiderius Erasmus
• He was a Dutch Christian Humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. Originally trained as a Catholic priest, Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a pure Latin style.

Need for reformation

• Corruption in the Church
• humanists like erasmus believed that the church needed to reform and focus more on understanding the bible. Between 1450 and 1520, the church started to become a place where people tried to advance their careers and increase their wealth and priests were illiterate and unfamiliar with the bible

Need for reformation

• Salvation
• the act of being protected or saved from being punished for a sin.
• Indulgence
• remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned (as through the sacrament of reconciliation)

Martin Luther

• In 1517, a monk named martin luther took his criticism to the church by writing them as grievances in a letter known as the ninety-five theses. He stated that it was faith alone, not doing good things that brought about salvation. he put more emphasis on why selling indulgences was wrong. He wanted to establish a German Church with a new system of sacraments. a religious symbol or ceremony in the Christian Church

Split between luther and catholics

• Split
• By 1520….
• Lutheranism
• Luther is excommunicated in Jan. 1521
• Edict of Worms
• The Diet of Worms 1521 was an imperial assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called on by King Charles V. It was held at the Heylshof Garden in Worms, then an Imperial Free City of the Empire.

German Reformation

• King Frederick
• Frederick II was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.
• Rise of Lutheranism
• Lutheranism as a religious movement originated in the early 16th century Holy Roman Empire as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church. This movement soon spread throughout northern Europe and became the driving force behind the wider Protestant Reformation.

Peace of Augsburg 1555

• Peace of Augsburg, first permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany, promulgated on September 25, 1555, by the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire assembled earlier that year at Augsburg. The legislation officially ended conflict between the two groups, though it made no provisions for other Protestant denominations, such as Calvinism.