Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII
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The idea
Indulgences promised time off purgatory. Luther held that faith alone saved, not works. Calvin in Geneva added predestination. Henry the Eighth broke with Rome for an heir by the Act of Supremacy of fifteen thirty-four.
In practice
By sixteen hundred: Catholic south, Orthodox east, Protestant north.
Where people slip
Two reformations protested the Church's failings; England's began, the anchor says, with a king's desires.
Your place on the trail
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