Reformers & Leaders
He nailed his 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
The year Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses.
What is 1517?
The doctrine that we are saved by faith alone. (Clue: Sola…)
What is sola fide?
Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language.
What is German?
The city where Luther lived and taught.
What is Wittenberg?
This Swiss reformer led the Reformation in Zurich.
Who is Ulrich Zwingli?
This church council condemned Martin Luther’s teachings.
What is the Diet of Worms?
The teaching that Scripture alone is the authority for faith and practice. (Clue: Sola…)
What is sola scriptura?
This English translator’s last words were “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes”
Who is William Tyndale?
The country where John Calvin’s reformation took root.
What is Switzerland?
This French reformer wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion.
Who is John Calvin?
This war between Catholics and Protestants ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
What is the Thirty Year’s War?
The teaching that salvation is by grace alone. (Clue: Sola…)
What is sola gratia?
Before the Reformation, the Bible was mainly read in this language.
What is Latin?
The Reformation spread rapidly through this region now known as Germany.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
He translated the Bible into English long before Luther’s time.
Who is John Wycliffe?
The invention that helped spread Reformation ideas quickly.
What is the printing press?
Reformers rejected this Catholic practice of paying for forgiveness.
What are indulgences?
The book of the Bible that has this verse: “the just shall live by faith”
What is Romans?
The Scottish reformer who helped found the Presbyterian Church.
Who is John Knox?
This reformer from Bohemia was burned at the stake for his beliefs
Who is Jan Hus?
This English monarch broke from Rome and started the Church of England.
Who is King Henry VIII?
These are the 5 solas of the reformation.
What is Sola scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide, sola Christus, sola Deo gloria?
The book of the Bible that has this verse: “For by grace you have been saved through faith”
What is Ephesians?
The Anabaptists were named for this distinctive belief.
What is adult (or believer’s) baptism?