Actions and Reactions during the Protestant and Counter Reformations

1. Actions and Reactions during the Protestant and Counter Reformations

2. 95 Theses posted • CRthreat of excommunication and book burning • RSspurred popular movement among German Protestants • GAHoly Roman Empire, German states

3. Protestants gained control of large numbers of Church faithful • CRCouncil of Trent (1545-63) • RSnumerous Church reforms, but maintained doctrine • GANorthern and Western Europe

4. Dutch become Calvinists • CRSpanish Inquisition • RSconveyed that the church has gone too far to silence dissent • GANetherlands (Protestant)

5. Protestant pamphlets become widespread • CRIndex of Forbidden books • RSmore sense of going too far • GAProtestant Western Europe

6. Protestants failed to spread their faith in the Hapsburg states • CRJesuits founded • RSChurch stemmed tide of Protestantism in Eastern Europe • GAEastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Czech Rep.)

7. To what extent was the Catholic Reformation successful? • Poland—success—Jesuits worked to stem the tide of Protestantism • England—no success—monarch had sufficient power to work without Rome • Netherlands—no success—due to the Spanish Inquisition, the Dutch were more determined to practice Calvinism • German provinces—no success and success—depended on religion of ruler

8. Doctrines Compared Catholic Faith Protestant Faiths