Zwingli, Calvin and the Swiss Reformation
I can explain how the Church split into different groups and the beliefs they held.
Zwingli, Calvin and the Swiss Reformation
I can explain how the Church split into different groups and the beliefs they held.
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Key learning points
- The printing press helped to spread Luther's ideas around Europe.
- Different people took up Luther's ideas and added to them.
- Zwingli believed that icons, relics and music distracted people from worship and should be removed.
- Groups of Protestants emerged who believed in the views of different leaders like Zwingli and Luther.
Keywords
Reformer/reformist - someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion
Catholic - a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church
Protestant - a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope as its head
Reformation - a 16th century movement calling for the reform of the Church
Transubstantiation - the teaching that the bread and wine used in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ
Common misconception
Protestantism is a single unified religion.
There are, today, thousands of different Christian denominations that can be considered versions of Protestantism. Almost from its very inception, Protestantism split into a variety of competing belief systems.
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someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion
a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church
a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope