1. The Second Split Christian Denominations

2. Martin Luther 1517 CE

3. EAST ORTHODOX WEST CATHOLIC CATHOLI C PROTESTANT 1)LUTHERAN 2)ANGLICAN 3)CALVINST 4)BAPTIST 5)METHODIST 6)EVANGELICAL 7)MORMONS 8)JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

4. THE SECOND SPLIT O Took place 500 years after the Eastern Schism O In 1517 CE, a German monk named Martin Luther caused a dramatic change by challenging Catholic medieval practices O He called for a simpler “ inner faith ” O The church ex-communicated him O His followers established the Lutheran Church and the Protestant Reformation

5. 95 THESES O Luther took a stand and posted the famous “95 Theses” on a church door in Germany O They were points of debate about practices and beliefs O He was specifically against indulgences as well as transubstantiation

6. Luther is against: Transubstantiation Indulgences O Changing of bread and wine into the substance of the body and blood of Christ during Holy Communion. O Prayers or actions in the Roman Catholic Church that are believed to free the individual from spending a specified period of time in purgatory.

7. Denomin ation OriginsBeliefsPractices Lutheran- based on Martin Luther’s challenges to the Catholic Church in 1517 - emphasize the message of God’s forgiving love and consider the Bible the sole guide to religious truth - in communion God is present through consubstantiation (the presence of Christ’s body and blood in the offering, but all around it, without altering the substance of the bread and wine) - two sacraments: baptism and Communion Calvinist Anglican … Protestant Denominations