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Brief Summary Of Martin Luther's Arguments Of Worms
Important Identifications:

Diet of Worms/Edict (decree) of Worms (1521)
Luther presented his views to a ruling assembly in Worms over which Emperor Charles V presided.
Luther declared that if he recanted, he would be acting against Scripture, reason, and his conscience.
He was placed under the imperial ban.
German Peasant’s War (1525)
German peasants opposed the efforts of their lords to override their traditional laws and customs and to subject them to new territorial regulations and taxes.
Peasant leaders felt that Luther’s teachings showed he believed in very a lot of the same things the German peasants believed in (freedom, the ridding of monastic landowners).
Peasants wanted a release from serfdom, so they revolted.
Luther
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had group called Swiss Brethren
Schleitheim Confession (1527) pacifism refusal to swear oaths nonparticipation in the offices of secular government physically separated from society to create a more perfect communion modeled on the first Christians persecuted by Lutherans, Catholics, and Zwinglians
In 1529, rebaptism became a capital offense within the Holy Roman Empire forced Lutherans and Catholics in the city to either convert or to emigrate (occurred in Munster)
Besieging armies blockaded Munster. transformed into Old Testament theocracy polygamy (Women had been widowed and left by their husbands. This was a way to care for all of the women.)
Modern Devotion (Brotherhood of Common Life) boarding school for reform-minded laity centered in the Netherlands educated boys preparing for a monastic vocation seen as the source of humanist, Protestant, and Catholic reform movements in the 16th century
Schmaldkaldic League formed in the 1530s by German Protestant lands (powerful defensive
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330)
Started with Henry VIII, who wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, because they were unable to produce a female heir to the throne. He did not have the permission of an annulment through the Catholic Church. Henry then pronounced himself to be the leader of the Church of England: the Anglican Church, so he could divorce himself. Through the Act of Supremacy, Henry was declared the sole leader and head of the Church of England.
Reformation Parliament (p.331)
In 1531, English Parliament recognized Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England. In 1532, Parliament passed the Submission of the Clergy, which meant that canon, or religious law, was under royal jurisdiction, or under Parliament.
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