2025 Renaissance and Reformation

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What are we going to do today?

Renaissance and humanism par 1.1

The Reformation in Europe (2.1)

Watch video

Do exercises

Reading

Read paragraph 1.1

Write down difficult words.

What is a humanist?

Aims

• Give examples of protestant reformers. Name at least two
• What were the causes of the reformation? Name at least three

The Reformation

Reform of the Catholic church

Let's read page 32 and 33

Difficult words?

Do ex 3B page 41

What do you know about Erasmus?

What are we going to do?

1. Recap

2. Start with a voca square (10 minutes)

3.Learn about two reformers: Maarten Luther and Calvin

4. Differences between Catholicism and Protestantism

5. Henry the VIII (video)

6. Counter reformation

7. Consequences of the Reformation

Recap in pairs discuss:

What was the Renaissance?

Where did the Renaissance start and why there?

Explain what the term Homo Universalis means.

Write down in your own words who Erasmus is and why is he important?

Learning objectives

After studying this section, you will be able to:

2.1 Give examples of protestant reformers

2.2 Explain the criticism of reformers on practices in the Church

      Explain that Protestantism spread throughout the world

      Take notes and structure them

Important people

Maarten Luther

keizer Karel V

Johannes Calvijn

Desiderius Erasmus

Split in the church

Read page 33 and 34

Start with the voca square

What do you know about Maarten Luther?

What were the problems in the church?

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What were the problems in the church?

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2.

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What kind of things were wrong in the Catholic church?

What does Luther see in Rome that irritates him?

priests spend too much time praying

the clergy live too luxuriously

people worship relics

people refuse to worship the pope

clerics are sleeping with women

people worship images of saints

Put the events in the correct chronological order

Luther must appear before the Emperor

Luther visits Rome

Luther writes his 95 theses

Luther translates the Bible into German

Luther burns the pope's letter

The Reformation Begins

• 1517: Luther protested against what, in his opinion, was wrong with the Catholic Church by posting his 95 theses
• The pope excommunicated Luther and wants him arrested
• 1521: Luther is ordered to the Diet at Worms to take back his words

William of Orange

The musical

29-09-2024

12:35

Assembly Hall (aula)

After the Diet of Worms

• Luthers supporters form the Lutherans and use Luthers protests to justify a split of the Catholic Church
• Their radical ideas spread all over Germany and causes violence against priests
• = the start of the Reformation

French Protestants

• Johan Calvin protested the Catholic Church
• French protestants = Huguenots
• Civil War between Catholics and Huguenots
• 1598: Edict of Nantes: Huguenots get more autonomy

Katholiek	Protestant
Contact met god door geestelijken	Direct contact met god en dominee legt de bijbel uit
Celibatair (geen seks en niet trouwen)	Niet celibatair
Geestelijken staan boven gelovigen	Dominee staat gelijk aan andere gelovigen
Verering van heiligen en relikwieën	Geen vereringvan heiligen en relikwieën

Verschil tussen katholieken en protestanten

Assignment

Make groups of three

Fill in the voca square, each person chooses one keyword (5 min)

Present your keyword to your groupmembers (5 min)

The Counter Reformation

Read the counter-reformation

What is it?

The Catholic Church defends itself

• 1545 (-1563): Church meeting that started the Counter-Reformation
• Protestants = heretics
• Inquisition should actively hunt them down and force them to become Catholic again
• Protestant books were forbidden and listed on the Index

Consequences

-The Protestant Reformation or Reformation, which caused Christianity in Western Europe to split into the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches.

- Bloody religious wars

- Heretics are persecuted

- Critical books are banned (index)

Homework

Read 2.2: Causes of the revolution

Make a summary of 2.1

Do: ex. 3b,4, 6, 7, 8, 11

-Study keywords

In your own words, what was the Protestant Reformation?