The Reformation of the 16th century was a movement within Western Christendom to purge the church of medieval abuses and to restore the doctrines and practices that the reformers believed conformed with the Bible and the New Testament model of the church. This led to a breach between the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH and the reformers whose beliefs and practices came to be called PROTESTANTISM. The following sites should aid you in developing your oral presentation as well as other source material

WITTENBERG PROJECT - http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: THE COUNTER REFORMATION - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04437a.htm

HANOVER HISTORY- THE REFORMATION - http://history.hanover.edu/early/prot.html

MSU REFORMATION PAGES - http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/index.htm

You have been called to defend the roles of the various groups that participated in the breakup of the Church Universal.

You will be asked to defend the position of your group through a position statement, cross-examination, and a summation. Each of the following groups will be represented:

1. Pre Reformation Reform Groups-

Thomas A Kempis and the Bretheren of Common Life

John Wycliffe and the Lollards

John Huss and the Hussites

Ockham and the Nominalists

Eckhart and the Rhenish Mystics

2. Martin Luther and Lutheranism

3. Ulrich Zwingli and Swiss Protestantism

4. John Calvin and Calvinism

Huguenots

Puritans

5. Henry VIII and English Anglicanism

6. Thomas Munzer and the Anabaptists

Town of Munster

7. Catholicism of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More

8. Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits.

Each of the groups will be responsible for a 5 minute opening presentation on the first day. Other groups should take notes for the cross-examination. Group must be prepared to defend their position on their beliefs and actions.

Each of the groups will be responsible for a 3-5 minute cross-examination of the other group's positions as well as cross-examination by Mr. Kopkas.

Each group will be responsible for a summation which justifies the position of their group.

These aspects of the reformation should be dealt with in the presentation:

The Protestant Reformation was caused by the changing intellectual, political, economic, and social life of the Renaissance period.

The Protestant Reformation had a profound impact on European political, economic, social, and intellectual life.

Describe and evaluate the secular and economic approaches to the study of the Protestant Reformation with specific emphasis upon the validity of those approaches.

The Protestant Reformation led to divergent and conflicting practices within Christianity.

Present the ecclesiastical and religious viewpoint of the Reformation, place specific emphasis upon the leaders, the theology, the state of the Catholic Church, and the development of Protestantism in Western Europe.

Questions in the cross-examination will reflect these aspects of the presentation.