Notes

Reformation- process of changing the church.
1.Catholic Church- lost sight of its spiritual mission. Needed money. Pope Leo X hires John Tetzel)  to sell indulgences-pardons for your sins past or future/ dead loved ones. Profit for Church.
 2.) Popes did not set an example of moral leadership.
3.) The priest engaged in misconduct.
4.) The church was mor concerned about makinf money than of the people.
5.)There was no central government in Germany (which meant no control over religious ideas or papel abuses.)
6.) Tetzel began selling the indulgences.

Martin Luther- monk. Started off in law school. Believed in the "justification by faith." He writes the 95 theses & nails them to the church door in Whittenberg, Germany. They attacked the ideas of the indulgences. Luther is expelled from the Catholic Church.

7.) Luther was summoned to appear before the Imperial Diet- the counsil of the Catholic Church in Worms, Germany.

8.) Luther is commanded to abandon his ideas. He refuses.
9.) He is exiled from the empire, his works are banned.
10.) Martin Luther translates the Bible into German.
11.) Luther's works and ideas continue to spread.
12.) Luther establishes the first Protestant Church.
13.) The first denomination was Lutheranism.