The
Spread
of the Reformation:
Calvin, Radical Protestants, and Henry
VIII
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John Calvin |
1491-1547 |
Elizabeth I c.1546s |
á What is
Calvinism? How did it differ from Lutheranism?
á How did the
Reformation breed social radicalism?
á How did the Reformation
come to England? What did Henry VIII want?
Key Terms
1)
John Calvin 6)
Catherine of Aragon
2)
predestination 7)
Act of Supremacy
3)
The Protestant Work Ethic 8)
The Elizabethan Settlement
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Huguenots
5)
Anabaptists
I. Calvinism: Theology and Politics
á Ulrich
Zwingli (1484-1531): Humanist and Swiss Reformer
á John Calvin (1509-1564): Law,
Humanism, and Religion
á Who Receives
Salvation? The Concept of Predestination
á The ÒProtestant
Work EthicÓ (Max
Weber) and the New Morality
á CalvinÕs
Religious Theocracy in Geneva: Smashing
the Idols
á Other
Calvinists: Huguenots
(France), Presbyterians (Scotland), ÒPuritansÓ (England)
II. Radical
Protestants: A Religion for the
Poor?
á Religion and
Social Equality
á The German Peasants War
(1525)
á The Anabaptists
and the MŸnster
Rebellion (1534)
III.
The English Reformation: The
Primacy of Politics?
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The Legacy of English Religious Independence (Henry II and
Thomas Beckett)
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Strong Monarchy, Detachment, and Heretics
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Henry
VIIIÕs Big Problem
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Catherine
of Aragon, Anne
Boleyn, Charles V and the Pope
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Help from Parliament
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First Act of Supremacy: King as Head of the Church of England
(1534)
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The Early Anglican Church
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Sibling Rivalry:
ÒBloodyÓ
Mary (1553-58) and Elizabeth I
(1558-1603)
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The Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Rise of
Calvinism: Toward a Protestant
Nation