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2014 Final Exam History Revision Chapter 17 Renaissance Reformation Section 3 The Reformation Begins Calls for Church Reform The situation with the Church before Reformation – church was controlled by Pope and HRE, who were getting rich - Bibles were being printed and translated The reason religion was popular – no new scientific exploration - religion was a good tool to rule people Reformation- A events of reforming the church. - led to the creation of new churches in Western Europe - Protestant appeared Desiderius Erasmus- Christian Humanism - “Human beings could use their reason to become better Christian and thereby improve the Church.” ( Using their own understanding of their faith in order to make himself or herself a good Christian) translated the Bible to vernacular The situation of church- taxed people heavily - some bishops behaved like kings and lived in luxury Indulgence- the thing you can buy to reduce your punishments - purpose: got money from Christian William Tyndale - questioned the power of popes - also translated bible Martin Luther - He was angry about what the popes did and he worried about his own faith - Luther was mad about the Church selling the indulgence. So he wrote down his Ninety-Five Theses Lutheranism- the first Protestant denomination -three ideas 穎aith in Jesus, not good works, brings solution 稡ible is the final source of truth about God 稢hurch is made up by all believers Peasant Revolts - peasants are in suffer - the tax had been increased by the nobles - Luther wanted to stir the peasants to revolt - result: they peasants were defeated by nobles who had weapons Politics and Lutheranism Why Protestantism succeeded? - Europe kings realized mo