LESSON 5.10 What were the Reformation and Counter-Reformation?
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to: • identify the key changes of the Reformation • explain the key ideas of Martin Luther.
Tune in The events of the Reformation were portrayed in many ways by Renaissance artists.
SOURCE1 A woodcut by Jorg Breu, c. 1530, showing the Pope’s representatives selling indulgences to Catholic townspeople
Examine SOURCE1 and its caption and suggest what is happening in the image. What do you think ‘selling indulgences’ might mean?
5.10.1 Luther challenges the Church As the name suggests, the Reformation began as a series of unrelated attempts to reform the Catholic Church. The people who made these attempts were called Protestants, because they were protesting a specific aspect of the Catholic Church. Protestants believed in the central place of the Bible in
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