I. Ch. 11 Age of Reformation (16th Century) pp 317 (K) Ch 4 (Viault)
A. Society and Religion
1. Social and Political Conflict
a. free imperial cities of Germany and Switzerland
b. internal social and political divisions
c. economic issues of the early reformation
2. Popular Religious Movements and Criticism of the Church
a. "exile" in Avignon and the Great Schism
b. Growing criticism of the Church
c. The Modern Devotion
1) Brothers of the Common Life
2) Gerard Groote
3) Thomas a Kempis The Imitation of Christ
d. Lay control over religious life
1) benefice system and the sale of church offices
2) Absenteeism
3) Sale of indulgences
4) City Government and Preacherships
5) Immunity of place and person
B. Martin Luther and German Reformation to 1525
1. Luther’s background
2. Justification by Faith alone
3. The Attack on Indulgences
a. Leo X
b. Jubilee Indulgence
c. Church of Wittenberg
4. Election of Charles V
5. Luther's Excommunication and the Diet of Worms
6. Imperial Distractions: France and the Turks
a. Hapburg-Valois Wars
b. Peace of Augsburg 1555
7. How the Reformation Spread
8. The Peasants' Revolt
C. The Reformation Elsewhere: Zwingli, Anabaptists, Calvin
1. Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation
a. Switzerland
b. The Reformation in Zurich
c. The Marburg Colloquy
d. Swiss Civil Wars
2. Anabaptists and Radical Protestants
a. Anabaptists
b. Conrad Grebel an the Swiss Brethren
c. The Anabaptist Reign in Munster
d. Spiritualists
e. Antitrinitarians
3. John Calvin and the Genevan Reformation
a. Calvinism
b. Political Revolt and Religious Reform in Geneva
c. Calvin’s Geneva
D. Political Consolidation of the Lutheran Reformation
1. The Diet of Augsburg
2. The expansion of the Reformation
a. Christian II of Denmark
b. Gustavus Vasa of Sweden
c. Poland and toleration
3. Reaction against Protestants
4. The Peace of Augsburg
E. The English Reformation to 1553
1. The Preconditions