History 111
November 11, 2002
The Protestant Reformation

Outline
I.  Christian Humanism
II. The Importance of print
III.  Martin Luther's religious experience
IV.  The tenets of Lutheran theology
V. Luther's friends and enemies
VI.  Swiss variations on a German theme
 
 

Terms from today's lecture
Petrarch
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Martin Luther
Leo IX
simony
John Wycliffe (1320-84)
Jan Hus (1369-1415) of Prague
Johannes Gutenberg
Eisleben
Augustinian
Saint Augustine
Erfurt
Wittenberg
"The just shall live by faith."
"good works"
sacraments
1. baptism
2. confirmation
3. confession
4. eucharist (mass or communion)
5. holy matrimony
6. holy orders
7. extreme unction (last rites)
"a priesthood of all believers"
legate
Leo X
Charles V
Diet of Worms
Henry VIII
Mary of Hungary
Marguerite of Navarre
Francis I
Bona
Sigismund I
Basel
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
theocracy
Jean Calvin
predestination
capitalism
Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904)