Important Characters - Protestant Reformation
The Father of the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
The Englishman who believed that all should have access to the Bible in their own language. He was alive around 200 years before the English Reformation.
John Wycliffe
Luther believed that _____ alone was required for salvation.
Faith
In 1517, Luther nailed his __ _____ to the door in Wittenberg Germany, effectively beginning the Protestant Reformation.
95 Theses
What was the invention that allowed copies of Luther's writings to be circulated quickly?
The printing press
John Wycliffe
This infamous king of England was kind of the worst, but was a key catalyst for the birth of the Church of England.
Henry VIII
Faith, works
The 95 Theses were a series of _______ against what corrupt practice of the Roman Catholic Church?
Arguments
The selling of indulgences
What was the name of the political system in the Middle Ages in which peasants would work the land in exchange for the Nobility's protection?
Feudalism
Another forerunner of the Reformation - this Bohemian (modern day Czech Republic) spoke out against the corruption in the Church and was ultimately burned at the stake.
Jan Hus
He believed that English Christians should center their lives on prayer, and wrote the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.
Thomas Cranmer
What doctrine of theology is John Calvin famous for writing about?
Predestination
What was the gathering of Catholic officials called that put Luther on trial?
The Diet of Worms
Bonus: What was the name of the lord who first protected Luther after his trial?
Frederick the Wise
The most renowned theologian of the Reformation - he organized the theology of the reformers into a cohesive, systematic whole.
John Calvin
The two queens that had an enormous impact on the English Reformation.
Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary)
Elizabeth I
Explain the doctrine of predestination.
God has foreknowledge of those who will accept his offer of free grace and those will reject it.
Bonus: What was the name of the movement of reform in the Roman Catholic Church that immediately followed the Protestant Reformation?
The Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reformation
Bonus: What was the name of the massive tract of land in central Italy owned by the pope in the 16th century?
The papal states
The Holy Roman Emperor during the beginning of the Reformation.
Charles V
Explain how the two queens impacted the English Reformation.
Mary Tudor's persecution of protestants created sympathy for them, and Elizabeth I's moderate policies towards protestants and catholics helped put a stop to violence between them, allowing the reformation to flourish in England.
Give two theological points that come from the Reformation that we as a church still stand on even today.
1. Scripture is the final authority
2. Faith alone is required for salvation
3. The Church is not our connection to God; we can have a personal relationship to God through Jesus Christ
Why did many rulers at the time find the idea of Protestantism appealing?
1. It could limit the pope's power
2. At its core, it was a questioning of the Church's political authority
Name three things going on in the world that set the stage for the Reformation.
1. Feudalism was dying out
2. Rulers were tired of the pope's power
3. The printing press was invented
4. Corruption in the Church