Pre-lesson Homework: Outlining the Reformation
Title: / Reformation / # of Days: 2
Unit Essential Question: / How were religion, culture and the quest for knowledge responsible for interactions among global civilizations?
Objective: / How and why did the Reformation lead to religious reform?
NCSOS: / WH.H.4.Analyze the political, economic, social and cultural factors that lead to the development of the first age of global interaction
WH.H.4.1 Explain how interest in classical learning and religious reform contributed to increased global interaction (e.g., Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Catholic Reformation, Printing revolution, etc).
Common Core:
Topics Covered:
Test Questions: / Define Indulgences
Identify and describe the treatise that Martin Luther posted on the Wittenberg Church door
Identify one Christian denomination, its founder and its defining characteristic
Day 1
Bell Ringer (15 minutes)
- Which person studied yesterday made the most important contribution to the Renaissance? Explain.
Activity # 1 – Humanism(10 minutes)
- Virtual tour of Sistine Chapel. Discussion about Humanism/its impact on religion
- Make a prediction: With people focusing more on themselves, what impact is this going to have on religion?
Activity # 2 – Introduction to Reformation (15 minutes)
- Video -
Activity # 3 – Outlining the Reformation (45 minutes)
- Jigsaw: In groups of three, each student outlines 3 paragraphs from The Reformation reading. Shares with students
- Go over as a class
Activity # 4 – Martin Luther’s 95 Theses(Remaining)
- Introduce students to 95 Theses homework assignment
Day 2
Bell Ringer
- What are 3 of the reasons that Martin Luther had for speaking out against the Catholic Church?
Activity # 1 – Connection to Today
- Education system – have them write down 8 grievances; have 4 students come to board and write their grievances up there
Activity # 2 – Contributor Bubbles
- Go over previous day’s outline – put contributors into bubbles
Activity # 3–Contributors – WRITING WORKSHOP
- Question: Who made the most significant contribution to the Renaissance? Explain.
- Introductory Paragraph
- Differentiation: Outline: Complete thoroughly, including RACE
Closing Activity
- Were Martin Luther and Henry VIII right to leave the Catholic Church?
Notes
Assessment:
Differentiation Strategies:
Differentiation: / Student Engagement: / Critical Thinking: / Teacher Input: / Lesson Effectiveness:
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Reformation Outline
- Introduction
- Reformation was religious revolution
- 16th century
- Medieval Roman Catholic Church
- Papacy deeply involved in political life
- Charges of corruption
- Abuses: sale of indulgences
- Most found spiritual comfort
- Political authority wanted church to have less control
- Previous Reformations
- Reformers: Jan Yoos and John Wycliffe
- Humanist connection
- Wanted reform
- Martin Luther
- Distinguished by theological problem: redemption and grace
- Posted 95 Theses attacking indulgences
- Argued scripture alone and faith would save
- Did not intend to break from church
- Rejected trans-substantiation
- Diversification of Movement
- Zwingli – Trans-substantiation
- Baptism later in life
- Calvinism
- Agreed with Luther on Faith
- Differed on Communion and body/blood of Christ
- Spreading
- Lutheranism dominated Northern Europe
- Eastern Europe = Protestantism
- Spain/Italy – remained Catholic
- England
- Henry wanted annulment
- Book of Common Prayer
- Scotland – Presbyterianism
- Led to Union between Scotland and England
Video Questions
- What is the significance of students throwing the papal bull in the river?
- Why did Martin Luther appeal to people? What characteristics did his writings utilize?
- How did Martin Luther view the pope?
- What is a sacrament?
- What is Martin Luther’s claim about sacraments?
- What did Martin Luther feel the relationship should look like between man and God?
- Why was Martin Luther excommunicated?
- What is the significance of Martin Luther burning his excommunication letter?
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
1-4. “Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ willed that our whole life should be repentance.”
21. “Thus those indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is forgiven from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.”
32. “They will be condemned eternally, together with their teachers, who believe themselves sure of their salvation because they have letters of pardon.”
36. “Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full forgiveness of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon.”
79. “To say that the cross decorated with the papal coat of arms, and set up by the indulgence preachers is equal in worth to the cross of Christ is blasphemy.”
86. Again: -- "Why does not the pope, whose wealth is today greater than the riches of the richest, build just this one church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers?"
94-95. “Christians should want to follow Christ even through penalties, death and hell, and thus be confident of entering into heaven through many difficulties rather than though the false security of peace.
Directions: On the left side of the column is a quotation from Martin Luther’s 95 Theses that demonstrate the four principles of his work. Read the quote, and then translate it in the right-hand column.
Reading Guide
Here are TwoKey Points of the 95 Theses:
- All Christians should have a constant feeling of regret for thethings they've done wrong and if you do regret your sins and ask forforgiveness, you will make it to heaven.
- You cannot buy forgiveness for your sins from the Catholic Churchand those who believe you can and will end up in hell.
Identify two additional Key Points of the 95 Theses:
Glossary
Indulgence – Forgiveness for a sin purchased from the Catholic Church
Pardon – Forgiveness for a sin
Papal – of or pertaining to the pope, the head of the Catholic Church
Condemn – To be sentenced to a particular punishment
Eternal – Forever
Blasphemy – the act or offense of speaking about God in a manner that is not holy
Repentance – To feel or express true regret for one's wrongdoing
THE REFORMATION
The Reformation was the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century; its greatest leaders undoubtedly were Martin Luther and John Calvin. Having far-reaching political, economic, and social effects, the Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity.
The world of the late medieval Roman Catholic Church from which the 16th-century Reformers emerged was a complex one. Over the centuries the church, particularly in the office of the papacy, had become deeply involved in the political life of Western Europe. The resulting intrigues and political manipulations, combined with the church's increasing power and wealth, contributed to the bankrupting of the church as a spiritual force. Abuses such as the sale of indulgences (or spiritual privileges) by the clergy and other charges of corruption undermined the church's spiritual authority. These instances must be seen as exceptions, however, no matter how much they were played up by polemicists. For most people, the church continued to offer spiritual comfort. There is some evidence of anticlericalism, but the church at large enjoyed loyalty as it had before. One development is clear: the political authorities increasingly sought to curtail the public role of the church and thereby triggered tension.
The Reformation of the 16th century was not unprecedented. Reformers within the medieval church such as St. Francis of Assisi, Valdes (founder of the Waldensians), Jan Hus, and John Wycliffe addressed aspects in the life of the church in the centuries before 1517. In the 16th century Erasmus of Rotterdam, a great Humanist scholar, was the chief proponent of liberal Catholic reform that attacked popular superstitions in the church and urged the imitation of Christ as the supreme moral teacher. These figures reveal an ongoing concern for renewal within the church in the years before Luther is said to have posted his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church, Wittenberg, Germany, on October 31, 1517, the eve of All Saints' Day—the traditional date for the beginning of the Reformation.
Martin Luther claimed that what distinguished him from previous reformers was that while they attacked corruption in the life of the church, he went to the theological root of the problem—the perversion of the church's doctrine of redemption and grace. Luther, a pastor and professor at the University of Wittenberg, deplored the entanglement of God's free gift of grace in a complex system of indulgences and good works. In his Ninety-five Theses, he attacked the indulgence system, insisting that the pope had no authority over purgatory and that the doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel. Here lay the key to Luther's concerns for the ethical and theological reform of the church: Scripture alone is authoritative ( sola sciptura) and justification is by faith ( sola fide), not by works. While he did not intend to break with the Catholic church, a confrontation with the papacy was not long in coming. In 1521 Luther was excommunicated; what began as an internal reform movement had become a fracture in western Christendom.
The Reformation movement within Germany diversified almost immediately, and other reform impulses arose independently of Luther. Huldrych Zwingli built a Christian theocracy in Zürich in which church and state joined for the service of God. Zwingli agreed with Luther in the centrality of the doctrine of justification by faith, but he espoused a different understanding of the Holy Communion. Luther had rejected the Catholic church's doctrine of transubstantiation, according to which the bread and wine in Holy Communion became the actual body and blood of Christ. According to Luther's notion, the body of Christ was physically present in the elements because Christ is present everywhere, while Zwingli claimed that entailed a spiritual presence of Christ and a declaration of faith by the recipients.
Another group of reformers, often though not altogether correctly referred to as “radical reformers,” insisted that baptism be performed not on infants but on adults who had professed their faith in Jesus. Called Anabaptists, they remained a marginal phenomenon in the 16th century but survived—despite fierce persecution—as Mennonites and Hutterites into the 21st century. Opponents of the ancient Trinitarian dogma made their appearance as well. Known as Socinians, after the name of their founder, they established flourishing congregations, especially in Poland.
Another important form of Protestantism (as those protesting against their suppressions were designated by the Diet of Speyer in 1529) is Calvinism, named for John Calvin, a French lawyer who fled France after his conversion to the Protestant cause. In Basel, Switzerland, Calvin brought out the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion in 1536, the first systematic, theological treatise of the new reform movement. Calvin agreed with Luther's teaching on justification by faith. However, he found a more positive place for law within the Christian community than did Luther. In Geneva, Calvin was able to experiment with his ideal of a disciplined community of the elect. Calvin also stressed the doctrine of predestination and interpreted Holy Communion as a spiritual partaking of the body and blood of Christ. Calvin's tradition merged eventually with Zwingli's into the Reformed tradition, which was given theological expression by the (second) Helvetic Confession of 1561.
The Reformation spread to other European countries over the course of the 16th century. By mid century, Lutheranism dominated northern Europe. Eastern Europe offered a seedbed for even more radical varieties of Protestantism, because kings were weak, nobles strong, and cities few, and because religious pluralism had long existed. Spain and Italy were to be the great centers of the Counter-Reformation, and Protestantism never gained a strong foothold there.
In England the Reformation's roots were both political and religious. Henry VIII, incensed by Pope Clement VII's refusal to grant him an annulment of his marriage, repudiated papal authority and in 1534 established the Anglican Church with the king as the supreme head. In spite of its political implications, the reorganization of the church permitted the beginning of religious change in England, which included the preparation of a liturgy in English, the Book of Common Prayer. In Scotland, John Knox, who spent time in Geneva and was greatly influenced by John Calvin, led the establishment of Presbyterianism, which made possible the eventual union of Scotland with England. For further treatment of the Reformation, see Protestantism, history of. For a discussion of the religious doctrine, see Protestantism.
Assignment:
Outline this reading. Each paragraph should be its own bullet with at least two sub points below.
Reformation: Video Questions
- What is the significance of students throwing the papal bull in the river?
- Why did Martin Luther appeal to people? What characteristics did his writings utilize?
- How did Martin Luther view the pope?
- What is a sacrament?
- What is Martin Luther’s claim about sacraments?
- What did Martin Luther feel the relationship should look like between man and God?
- Why was Martin Luther excommunicated?
- What is the significance of Martin Luther burning his excommunication letter?
Reformation: Video Questions
- What is the significance of students throwing the papal bull in the river?
- Why did Martin Luther appeal to people? What characteristics did his writings utilize?
- How did Martin Luther view the pope?
- What is a sacrament?
- What is Martin Luther’s claim about sacraments?
- What did Martin Luther feel the relationship should look like between man and God?
- Why was Martin Luther excommunicated?
- What is the significance of Martin Luther burning his excommunication letter?
Reformation: Video Questions
- What is the significance of students throwing the papal bull in the river?
- Why did Martin Luther appeal to people? What characteristics did his writings utilize?
- How did Martin Luther view the pope?
- What is a sacrament?
- What is Martin Luther’s claim about sacraments?
- What did Martin Luther feel the relationship should look like between man and God?
- Why was Martin Luther excommunicated?
- What is the significance of Martin Luther burning his excommunication letter?
Reformation: Video Questions
- What is the significance of students throwing the papal bull in the river?
- Why did Martin Luther appeal to people? What characteristics did his writings utilize?
- How did Martin Luther view the pope?
- What is a sacrament?
- What is Martin Luther’s claim about sacraments?
- What did Martin Luther feel the relationship should look like between man and God?
- Why was Martin Luther excommunicated?
- What is the significance of Martin Luther burning his excommunication letter?
Notebook Quiz – Wednesday, February 27
- List one of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and its translation.
95 Theses:
Translation:
- What page can this be found on in your notebook?
- What did John Calvin believe in?
- What date did Unit # 4 begin?
- When is the Unit # 4 test?
- What days of the week are tutorial?
- List 3 Renaissance Artists:
Notebook Quiz – Wednesday, February 27
- List one of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and its translation.
95 Theses:
Translation:
- What page can this be found on in your notebook?
- What did John Calvin believe in?
- What date did Unit # 4 begin?
- When is the Unit # 4 test?
- What days of the week are tutorial?
- List 3 Renaissance Artists:
Notebook Quiz – Wednesday, February 27
- List one of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and its translation.
95 Theses:
Translation:
- What page can this be found on in your notebook?
- What did John Calvin believe in?
- What date did Unit # 4 begin?
- When is the Unit # 4 test?
- What days of the week are tutorial?
- List 3 Renaissance Artists:
Notebook Quiz – Wednesday, February 27
- List one of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and its translation.
95 Theses:
Translation:
- What page can this be found on in your notebook?
- What did John Calvin believe in?
- What date did Unit # 4 begin?
- When is the Unit # 4 test?
- What days of the week are tutorial?
- List 3 Renaissance Artists: