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Year 8

Zwingli, Calvin and the Swiss Reformation

I can explain how the Church split into different groups and the beliefs they held.

New
New
Year 8

Zwingli, Calvin and the Swiss Reformation

I can explain how the Church split into different groups and the beliefs they held.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. The printing press helped to spread Luther's ideas around Europe.
  2. Different people took up Luther's ideas and added to them.
  3. Zwingli believed that icons, relics and music distracted people from worship and should be removed.
  4. Groups of Protestants emerged who believed in the views of different leaders like Zwingli and Luther.

Common misconception

Protestantism is a single unified religion.

There are, today, thousands of different Christian denominations that can be considered versions of Protestantism. Almost from its very inception, Protestantism split into a variety of competing belief systems.

Keywords

  • Reformer/reformist - someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion

  • Catholic - a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church

  • Protestant - a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope as its head

  • Reformation - a 16th century movement calling for the reform of the Church

  • Transubstantiation - the teaching that the bread and wine used in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
  • Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which keyword means to be to be banned from Church services and the community?
Correct Answer: excommunicated, Excommunicated
Q2.
Complete the following sentence: The Lutheran led to widespread religious and political reform over the next few centuries.
Correct Answer: Reformation
Q3.
Complete the sentence: Luther believed that nothing humans could do would guarantee salvation; only faith in alone would reward them with a place in Heaven.
Correct Answer: God, god
Q4.
What did Luther do during his 'captivity'?
He wrote the pope an apology letter.
He wrote the ‘Defence of the Seven Sacraments’.
Correct answer: He translated the Bible into German.
He translated the Bible into Latin.
Q5.
What title did Pope Leo X give to Henry VIII to show how pleased he was with him?
Holy Roman Emperor
'Defender of the Church’
'Defender of the Peace’
Correct answer: 'Defender of the Faith’
Q6.
What other event did Luther's challenge to the Church's authority inspire?
the English Civil War
the German Civil War
the English Peasants’ War
Correct answer: the German Peasants’ War

6 Questions

Q1.
Match the keywords to the correct definitions.
Correct Answer:reformer/reformist,someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion

someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion

Correct Answer:Catholic,a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church

a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church

Correct Answer:Protestant,a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope

a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope

Q2.
Which of the following words describes the teaching that the bread and wine used in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ?
consubstantiation
Correct answer: transubstantiation
symbolic
Q3.
What was the main difference between Wycliffe and Hus and Luther?
Luther had the support of the Holy Roman Emperor
Luther had the support of the pope
the invention and use of the telegram
Correct answer: the invention and use of the printing press
Q4.
Complete the sentence: Protestant works were written in German so that people could read and understand them, whereas Catholic works were generally written in .
Correct Answer: Latin, latin
Q5.
Who founded the Swiss Reformed Church in July 1522 inspired by Luther's teachings?
Martin Zwingli
Correct answer: Huldrych Zwingli
Henry V
Henry VIII
Q6.
What was the name of an important Protestant reformer who organise Geneva's government based around Protestantism and a strict set of rules?
Correct Answer: John Calvin, Calvin

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