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Reformation leaders
Kira Kurtzman, Drew Lewis
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12th Grade
09/10/2011

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Erasmus

( Ms. Heep's Boyfriend :) )

 

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Was the most influential humanist of the reformation. Wrote the Praise of Folly. Laid the egg that Luther hatched.
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Thomas More
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Was a humanist who wrote Utopia in 1516.
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Martin Luther
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Wrote the 95 theses and posted them on the church door. Was exommunicated by Pope Leo X and later burned his sentence.
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Ulrich Zwingli
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   Led the Swiss Reformation. Took part in the Marburg Colloquy. Heated debate between him and Luther over the presence of Christ during communion. Luther believed he was present while ----- believed it was just symbolic.

 

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John Calvin
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Started the Presbyterian church. Believed in predestination.
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Philip Melanchthon

 

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Wrote the Confessions of Augsburg in 1530.
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Michael Servetus

 

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A Unitarian humanist from Spain, was burned at the stake in 1553 for his denial of the Trinity.

 

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Johann Eck
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Catholic theologian who debated Martin Luther at the famous Leipzig debates in July 1519. These debates were over the controversies about the church.
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Girolamo Savonalora
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Famous for the Bonfire of the Vanities. Opposed church corruption and called for reformation. Executed by the church in 1498 for heracy.
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John Knox
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Calvanist reformer from Scotland. Father of Presbyterian church.
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