Protestant Reformation Part C

1. Protestant ReformationPart C

2. In Switzerland, what was the Ulrich Zwingli approach to Christianity? • Like Luther, Zwingli rejected much of Catholic teaching • Zwingli believed in justification by faith alone • Zwingli believed that baptism and communion were largely symbolic • Zwingli believed in iconoclasm, the destruction of religious paintings and statues

3. 2. In what ways did Luther and Zwingli disagree? • They disagreed on what the sacraments did • They disagreed on the use of icons 3. What became of Zwingli? • In 1531, Zwingli was killed in a war between Protestants and Catholics

4. 4. Who was John (Jean) Calvin, and what was Calvinism? • John Calvin was a French lawyer who became a Protestant theologian • Like Luther, Calvin believed in and taught justification by faith alone • Calvin taught that God determines whatsoever shall happen in history • Calvin’s system of theology became known as Calvinism

5. 5. In Calvinism, God’s eternal decree was known as what? • Predestination • Calvin taught that God chose some to be saved, and chose that others would remain in sin unto damnation • Those chosen to salvation were known as the Elect, and the Elect would ultimately come to faith in Christ

6. 6. Where did John Calvin gain power in the 1530s? • Geneva, Switzerland 7. What types of rules did Calvin eventually help to establish in Geneva? • In Geneva, strict moral rules rules were put in place, and activities such as dancing, dirty songs, drunkenness, cursing, and card playing were banned

7. 8. To where did Calvinism spread? • France • The Netherlands (Holland) • Scotland • England • And eventually, North America

8. 9. What was Calvin’s 1536 (first edition) book, Institutes of the Christian Religion? • A systematic explanation of Calvin’s view of Protestant Christianity