the upheaval of the earliest sixteenth century had its roots in political and social developments as much as in religious disputes
Reformation
Announced on October 31, 1517 by being posted on a church door
Ninety Five Theses
The belief that by faith alone was the factor through which Christians might reach bliss in the afterlife and that faith was given by God and not in anyway earned by naturally sinful man
justification by faith
The French lawyer who made the Protestant movement an international theological rebellion against Rome
John Calvin
Calvin set out his beliefs and doctrines with the precision and clarity of a lawyer with this
The Institutes of the Christian Religion
The souls predestined for heaven
the elect
The followers of this sect were briefly a threat to both Catholics and Lutherans, but both put them down with extreme cruelty