1. 1.What is the Christian teaching states that God has determined who will be saved?
In what country did Calvinism begin?

2. Bellringer
1.What is the Christian teaching states that God has determined who will be saved?
predestination
In what country did Calvinism begin?
Switzerland

3. Today-Objective: Counter-Reformation
Complete the Counter Reformation
Guided notes worksheet
Review important people of the Counter-Reformation
Why was the Council of Trent important?
What events brought peace & a beginning of toleration?

4. Complete the Notes using
The Counter Reformation

5. Brainstorm before you begin:
The Protestant Reformation is sweeping across Central Europe, England, and even Scandinavia! You have been hired by the Pope to develop ideas that the Church can implement in order to stop believers from converting to these heretical faiths. What are your top 3 ideas? Hurry, you must act quickly, or Protestantism may overrun Europe!

6. The Counter Reformation 1530s-1648
The Catholic Church’s Response to the Protestant Reformation

7. The Counter Reformation
Water Torture during the Inquisition
The Church had two tactics:
Reform the Church from Within
Stop the Spread of Protestantism
Council of Trent

8. Those who tried to change the Catholic Church within
Girolamo Savonarola
Preached against abuses of the church
Had people melt down their Gold & silver to help the poor –Bonfire of the Vanities
Executed by Pope

9. Ignatius of Loyola A soldier Wounded
Healing Ignatius reads the lives of the Saints

10. Jesuits
Society of Jesus. Worked to renew spirituality & service to the church
Worked on using education to counter the Protestant Reformation.
Founded by Ignatius of Loyola. Former soldier & nobleman. Ran the Jesuits like a military organization

11. What does this quote by Loyola mean?
“We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.”

12. Council of Trent( )
Purpose: The Church held meetings to discuss reform AND define dogma (official teachings)
Addressed the abuses that had weakened the church. Called for priests to be trained & financial abuses to be ended.
Indulgences abolished.
Rejected Protestant doctrine. Faith & works needed for salvation.

13. Those who carried out the reforms of the council of Trent
Charles Boromeo
Archbishop of Milan.
Educated priests
Francis de Sales
Worked to turn people from Calvinism
Founded a teaching order for women
Teresa of Avila
Became a nun about 1536
Her spirituality inspired many
to remain Catholic

14. Stopping the Spread of Protestantism
The Inquisition
Why?
General purpose was to discover heretics (mostly Jews and Muslims, but also Protestants), reinforce Catholic doctrine, and prove the power of the Church
When?
1400s-1800s
Where?
Mostly Spain and Italy
Different variations took place
across Europe, but it was most notorious in Spain
Ironic! (These places were strongholds of
Catholicism)
How?
The accused were put on trial and were guilty
until proven innocent…
Torture was used to elicit confessions

15. Video: The Spanish Inquisitiondw

16. Stopping the Spread of Protestantism
Index (List) of Banned Books
Created in 1559 by the Pope
Purpose was to prevent heresy (make sure you know what this word means) and ensure books were morally correct
Banned both Protestant literature and texts by some intellectuals, like Erasmus

17. Was the Counter-Reformation a success?
The Church did not win back many of the “lost souls” that had converted to Protestantism…
But, it shed its reputation for corruption and it spread widely through missionary work

18. Religious Wars & Unrest

19. Italian Wars Charles V invaded Italy in 1494 Wars ended in 1559
The significance of the Italian wars was to spread the Renaissance. Italian artist fled north

20. Peasants’ War
Stirred by Luther’s teaching thousands of German peasants stormed castles & monasteries.
Nobles harshly put down the uprisings. Luther opposed the peasants.

21. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V opposed Protestants
In 1546 he began a war with Lutheran princes of Germany
Peace of Augsburg was signed in 1555
Each prince would choose the religion his subjects would follow

22. France King Henry of Navarre became Catholic.
1598- Edict of Nantes granted religious freedom to Protestants
Huguenots- French Protestant minority
Wars between Catholics & Huguenots lasted for years
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre- 1572
Catholics killed 1000s of Protestants

23. Denominations of Europe

24. There are 3 major divisions within Christianity
Protestant
Lutheran
Anglican/Episcopal
Methodist
Presbyterian
Reformed
Baptists
Pentecostal
Nondenominational
Independent
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox
Russian
Greek
Southwest Asia, Eastern Europe, India

25. All Christian groups agree on:
Trinity
Nature of God
Divinity & humanity of Jesus Christ.
All hold to the major creeds;
Apostles, Nicene, Chalcedon
Justification by faith or how a person is saved & authority of Scripture
Disagree on church government, sacraments, role of the Holy Spirit