Rebellions:
-> Luther to 3 men for dying for their faith
Radical Reformation
Princely Reformation
Reformed Protestantism
Religious authority
:
- who’s in charge of religion? The institutions
- Church, State, or Self? You are in charge
- No Protestant Prince till 1525, No King till 1534
Luther’s rival:
- Huldrych Zwingli
- Bright Middle Class Child
- Swiss Parish Priest
- Army Chaplain
Luther vs Zwingli:
- Dislike each other
- Both: Salvation via Grace
Import of Scripture
Zwingli: Only scripture, Reject Images, Eucharist Symbolic
Zwingli’s Zurich:
- 1 of 13 Independent Cantons
- 1499 Defeat Habsburgs
- Resistance to Authority Accepted
- Power Centered in Cities
Reforming Zurich:
- 1522: Sausage Party
- 1523: Public Disputation
- 1524: Ban Images
- 1525: Ban Mass
- Radicalism Grows
Radical Reformation:
- New Ideas Run Amok
- All Can Have Authority
- Rise of Iconoclasm
- No Church, Just Evangelicals
- Secular Consequences

Peasant’s war:
Landowning Peasants Lead
Old debate: Tithes
Plunder Monasteries
Feb 1525: 30,000 Peasants
March: 12 Articles
April: Imperial Army Crackdown
Thousands Killed
12 Articles:
- The community wants to be in charge of choosing pastors, not the church or the states
- get rid of feudal system, based on a religious argument
- requesting contract between lords and peasants
- Reformation not just about reorganizing religion, but also about reorganizing secular power
Scars:
- Scares Rural Population
- Scares Rulers
- Luther, Against the murdering Thieving Hordes of Peasants 1525
- Drown Radicals in Zurich
- Princely Reformation
Taming the Reformation:
- Stamp Out or Embrace
- 1525: 3 German Princes Embrace
- 1526: Diet of Speyer
Give Toleration in HRE
Taming the Princes:
- 1529: HRE Rescind Toleration:
Protestation
- 1530: Augsburg Confession
Define Faith
- 1531: Form Defensive League
Still Trouble Within
Radical Response:
- Anabaptists
- No Infant Baptism
- Personal over Organized Authority
- Religious Life Over Material
- Communities of the Elect: God is predetermined who is to be saved and dammed
- Tradition of Martyrs

Anna Janz, 1539
Munster Rebellion:
- 1533 Attracts the Exiled
- Anabaptists Elected
- Communal Property
- Feb 1534 – June 1535: Hold City: a lot of women
- After: Crackdown
- Shifts Underground
1534: Beyond Munster
- Rulers Take Control
- Henry VIII: Act of Supremacy
Makes England Protestant
- Francis I: Affair of the Placards
Keeps France Catholic
John Calvin: Exile
Controlling Religion:
- Retain Old System: France, Italy & Spain
- Separate Church and State: Geneva


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