Protestant Reformation

Today we learned about the Protestant Reformation and the effect that it had on religions around the world today.  We talked about the different men who were part of the Reformation like Martin Luther: known for his 95 theses, William Tyndale: translated the New Testament into English, John Wycliffe: new teachings differing from catholic church and translated Bible into English, and John Calvin: wrote many commentaries on the Bible and taught teachings differing from catholic church.  We also talked about the role of the printing press in making the Bible accessible to the world and not just the priests.  As our activity, we did potato printing to get an idea of what printing would have been like, not quite as easy as typing these days, but still easier than copying everything by hand.