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History 320The European Reformation
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NEW HEAVEN NEW EARTH, 1517-1524

• Evangelical Challenges Zwingli and Radicalism
  1521-2
• Zürich and Wittenberg 1522-4
• The Years of Carnival, 1521-4
• WOOING THE MAGISTRATE, 1524-40
• Europes Greatest Rebellion 1524-5
• Princely Churches or Christian Separation
  1525-30
• The Birth of Protestantisms 1529-33

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Evangelical Challenges Zwingli and Radicalism,
1521-1522

• Zwingli Zürich (1519), Lent (1522)

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Evangelical Challenges

• Wittenberg radical teaching, radical actions
  Zwickau Prophets, Melanchthon, Karlstadt
• Luther returns March 1522

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Zürich and Wittenberg 1522-4

• Zürich disputations (January, October, 1523)
• Ten Commandments and images
• sacraments Eucharist, baptism
• The spirit gives life, but the flesh is of no
  use (John 6 63)
• God ? humanity community
• Zürich radicals, rebaptism (1525), Anabaptists
• Erasmus vs. Luther

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The Years of Carnival, 1521-4

• the uses of liberty
• On Secular Authority (1523)
• two-kingdoms theory

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Europes Greatest Rebellion 1524-5

• Peasants / Farmers War
• Luthers response
• Admonition to Peace (1525)
• Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of
  Peasants (1525)
• Thomas Müntzer an impractical mystic and
  dreamer (161)
• Twelve Articles (1525)

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Princely Churches or Christian Separation
1525-30

• Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Grand Master of
  the Teutonic Order
• Duke Johann of Electoral Saxony Landgraf Philipp
  of Hessen
• cuius regio, eius religio (Speyer, 1526)
• visitation, Electoral Saxony
• prince as emergency bishop or responsible for the
  care of religion

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Princely Churches or Christian Separation, 1525-30

• Anabaptism
• Balthasar Hubmair (d. 1528),
  Nikolsburg (Mikulov)
• believers baptism
• separation / suffering
• community of goods
• Jakob Hutter (d. 1536)
• Schleitheim Confession

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The Birth of Protestantisms 1529-33

• Marburg Colloquy (1529)
• Diet of Augsburg (1530), Augsburg Confession
  (1530)
• Schmalkaldic League (1531)
• Reformed Protestantism
• Christian Civic Union (1529-31)
• Heinrich Bullinger (d. 1575)
• covenant theology

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Marburg Colloquy (1529) Philip of Hessen
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Diet of Augsburg (1530)
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Chapter 3 New Heaven New Earth, 1517-1524

• Identify Zwingli, Melanchthon, Karlstadt,
  Zwickau Prophets, priesthood of all believers,
  theory of two kingdoms, Anabaptism, two
  Anabaptists, Magisterial Reformation, Radical
  Reformation
• 1. Who was Zwingli? (You will find more
  information in Chapter 4).
• 2. What constituted radicalism in the early years
  of the Reformation? Who was radical? Who was not?
  

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Chapter 3 New Heaven New Earth, 1517-1524

• 3. MacCulloch quotes Owen Chadwick "At the
  beginning of the sixteenth century everyone that
  mattered in the Western Church was crying out for
  reformation" (153). MacCulloch agrees with this.
  Did Chadwick's assertion ring true when you read
  Chapters 1 and 2?
• 4. In what way was the Reformation carnivalesque
  in the earliest phase of its development?

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Wooing the Magistrate, 1524-40

• Identify cuius regio, eius religio Schleitheim
  Confession (1527) Swiss Brethren Marburg
  Colloquy (1529) Diet of Augsburg (1530)
  Augsburg Confession (1530) Schmalkaldic League,
  Reformed Protestantism, Christian Civic Union,
  synodical system of church government
• Why did Romans 13 1-7 play an important role in
  the history of the relationship between
  Christianity and government?

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Wooing the Magistrate, 1524-40

• 1. What is the connection between the Reformation
  and the German Peasants' War?
• 2. Who were the first princes to support the
  Reformation?
• 3. How and why did Anabaptism deny "the concept
  of Christendom"(169)? Read Article 4 of the
  Schleitheim Confession. How does this contribute
  to your knowledge of Anabaptism?
• 4. MacCulloch mentions a process of definition
  and separation, capped by three momentous
  failures (172). Why were the Marburg Colloquy,
  the Diet of Augsburg, and the events of 1531 in
  Switzerland failures?