The Reformation

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angry enough, and he
nailed a complaint, called the 95 theses to a Church door. The 95 theses
complained about the sale of induldgences and other corruptions in the
Church. Luther also created new ideas against the Church. He rejected the
authority of the Pope and said that priests had no more authority than
laymen did. He said that vows taken by monks and nuns should be abolished
and said that clergy should be able to marry. He rejected the celibacy of
the clergy. Luther only kept two of the seven sacraments, baptism and the
Lord's Supper.

Pope Leo X condemned Luther's teachings in a papal decree. When
Luther recieved the decree, he burned it and a copy of the Church's canon
law. After this, Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor ordered him to recant.
Luther said he would not do so until he was convinced by the testimony of
the Scriptures.

Other scholars also helped the Reformation. Philip Melanchton,
Luther's colleague became the main theologian of the Reformation in ...

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of the Anglican Church. The
Act of Supremacy was passed. The Reformation also spread to Scandinavia

Forms of Protestanism

After the Reformation, many Protestant religions were formed. The
most dominant was Lutheran, which was the original Protestant religion.
Lutheran was mostly followed in Germany and Scandinavia. Lutheran taught
the ideas of Martin Luther. Another major Protestant religion was
Calvinist(Now called Presbyterian).Calvinism taught the ideas of Martin
Luther and John Calvin. A major idea of Calvinism was predestination.
Calvinists believed that people were selected to go to heaven when they
were born. If you were not chosen, you could not enter Heaven no ...

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