The Protestant Reformation Outline

The Protestant Reformation
(1450-1565)

(1) England
 Notion of the

Renaissance Prince
 Recent War of the
Roses created a sense of political instability for the
Tudor dynasty
--Henry VIII
 The significance of a male heir to the
Tudors

B. England
 Henry VIII’s marriage to

Catherine of Aragon
 Henry seeks an annulment  Henry creates the Church of England and establishes his own supremacy over it
 A “political reformation” only at first

John Calvin (1509-1564)
 More of a scholar

than Luther
 More of a systematic thinker than Luther
 Calvin’s Institutes
(1536)
 Early legal training
 Clear-cut moral directives for living
 Relied on Scripture and Augustine primarily for his ideas

(2) Teaching
 Predestination
 The right of