Popular Reformers
This monk is credited with starting the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This doctrine describes how we are made righteous before God through Christ.
What is justification(by faith)/Sola Fide?
At this trial, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
What was the Diet of Worms?
Group of English Calvinists who later founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who were the Puritans/Congregationalists?
This Roman emperor legalized Christianity in 313.
Who was Constantine the Great?
Authored the Institutes of the Christian Religion at just 27 years old.
Who was John Calvin?
This debated doctrine deals with God's choice of whom is to be saved.
What is predestination/election?
This council was held in response to the Protestant Reformation.
What was the Council of Trent?
This Reformed denomination gets its name from its belief that the church should be governed by elders.
Who are the Presbyterians?
This Anglican minister is credited as the founder of the Methodist Church.
Who was John Wesley?
Who was William Tyndale?
This doctrine describes how we are made more like Christ throughout our lives.
What is sanctification?
This movement was considered a revival of Puritan-style preaching.
What was the Great Awakening?
This Protestant group is mainly dominant in Germany and Scandinavia.
Who are the Lutherans?
The separation between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy began with this event.
What was the Great Schism?
This pre-Reformation reformer had his bones dug up and burned by the Roman Catholic Church.
Who was John Wycliffe?
Disagreement over this issue led to a split between the Lutherans and Calvinists.
What is the Lord's Supper?
This war between Puritans and Anglicans ended with a military dictatorship.
What was the English Civil War?
This group, commonly dubbed "Radical Reformers", was the precursor to the Amish, Quakers, and Mennonites.
Who were the Anabaptists?
The Council of Nicaea condemned the heresy named after this man.
Who was Arius?
This reformer died in battle against Roman Catholic forces.
Who was Ulrich Zwingli?
The Reformers believed that a true church must have these 3 marks.
What is the preaching of the Word, baptism and communion, and church discipline?
Thousands of French Calvinists were slaughtered on this day in 1572.
What is the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre?
The Church of England maintains this form of church government, where bishops govern the church.
What is episcopalian?
This early church father was personally taught by the Apostle John.
Who was Polycarp?