Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Reformation
- Change in the interpretation of religious studies in
life
- enourmous influence of
church
- social
- political
- economical
- cultural
- new ways of thinking -->
Humanism
- conflict between church and political
power
- Protestants
- Long-term causes of the reformation
- decline in influence of church
- black death
- credibility of church damaged because they could´t explain disease
- many priests killed
- rise of powerful kings
- King Philip IV
- new ways of thinking
- great voyages of discovery
- crusades
- renaissance
- earlier opposition to church
- worshippers of money rather than of god
- unlimited sale of relics
- John Wycliffe (1320-1384)
- Pope was not Christ´s representative
- Lollards
- English Kings tried to stop him
- Death of Wycliffe
- John Huss spreads Wycliffe´s writing
- after Huss´death -> Hussite Wars
- Short-time causes of the reformation
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- first reformer to lead many people to openly break with church
- monk
- questioned sale of indulgences in 1517
- pinned his 95 theses on church door
- communicated and punished as a heretic
- many followers and helpers in Germany
- Frederick III, of Saxony