The One Who Started it ALL
This person challenged the Church by posting theses on a church door in Germany.
Who is Martin Luther?
Luther believed that there should only be these two Sacraments.
What are Baptism and Eucharist?
It took the Church this long to come up with an official response to the 95 theses posted challenging the church.
What is 28 years?
What is seven?
This is the number of theses that were posted.
What is 95?
Martin Luther believed that this alone should be the final authority for Christians.
What is Scripture?
The official name of the Church's ecumenical council formed to respond to the theses.
What is the Council of Trent?
The Council also affirmed that Jesus should stay present even after Mass.
What is the Eucharist?
The theses were posted on this exact date?
What is October 31, 1517
What is salvation?
The Council of Trent began on this specific date.
What is December 13, 1545?
The Church addressed one of Martin Luther's challenges in a big way, acknowledging that this practice was not okay.
What is the practice of selling indulgences?
What is Protestantism?
The biggest challenge Luther had with the church was the practice of selling this term that means a lessening of the temporal punishment due for sins.
What are indulgences?
43 is the sum of the number of times the council met and the number of years it spanned over.
What is 25 (number of times council met) and 18 (number of years that it lasted)?
This was the exact date that the Council of Trent ended.
What is December 4, 1563?
Name at least two other branches of faith denominations that developed from the theses.
What is Calvinist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Puritan?
Luther believed that Jesus should no longer be present in the Eucharist once Mass is over, a clear belief against the Church, which believes in this term meaning the conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the body and blood of Christ at consecration.
What is transubstantiation?
These were formed to help keep the faith alive while the council was going on.
What are religious communities? (Franciscans and Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary)
This fraction of Europe remained Catholic after the council.
What is 2/3?