Luther Lecture
What was Martin Luther before he became a Reformer?
Monk
Who was the indulgence salesman who angered Luther?
Johann Tetzel
Who was the reformer leader in Switzerland?
Who was the scholar who wrote the book On the Fundamentals of Hebrew?
Johann Reuchlin
This saying was used by Catholics to sell what? “When the coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs!”
Indulgences
What did Martin Luther post on the church doors?
95 theses
Who did the pope make declare Luther an outlaw?
Charles V
Who was the French reformer in Geneva?
John Calvin
Who was the German scholar who was the first recorded Protestant?
Philipp Melanchtan
(A) Believed salvation came by faith alone
(B) Taught communion was symbolic not literal
(C) Wanted to remove Catholic traditions from the English Church
(D) Believed God already chose who is saved
(E) Believed in an “inner light” and silent worship
(F) Formed when a king broke from the pope
(G) Rejected infant baptism
(H) Catholic group focused on education and missions
(I) Created leadership run by elected elders
(J) Lived simply and peacefully outside government churches
Match with this:
Anglicans, Calvinists, Mennonites, Lutherans, Jesuits, Zwinglians, Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers
(F) → Anglicans
(D) → Calvinists
(J) → Mennonites
(A) → Lutherans
(H) → Jesuits
(B) → Zwinglians
(G) → Anabaptists
(I) → Presbyterians
(C) → Puritans
(E) → Quakers
What song did Martin Luther write?
A mighty fortress is our God
What tried to get Luther to retract his statements?
Diet of Augsburg
What preacher in Holland founded the Mennonites?
Menno Simmons
What English scholar charged Thomas Aquinas with corrupting the Roman Church?
(Fact or Fiction)
1. Luther once said he preferred German beer over the wine used in communion and suggested churches should switch.
2. Luther translated the New Testament into German in just 11 weeks while hiding in a castle.
3. Luther believed the Book of James should be removed from the Bible because it emphasized works.
4. Peasants used Luther’s teachings as justification for a violent revolt, and Luther publicly supported them.
5. When Luther’s writings were banned, people smuggled them across borders by hiding pages in barrels of fish.
6. Luther once claimed that throwing ink at the devil helped him focus while translating the Bible.
Fiction,
Fact,
Fact,
Fiction,
Fact,
Fact
What was Luther's wife's name?
Katharina Von Bora
Name one of the two things that the Catholics supported that Luther opposed.
saved by faith and getting rid of indulgences
Name the three other groups that came from the Anabaptists.
Baptists, Quakers, Amish
Who was the most famous figure of the Northern Renaissance who printed the New Testament in Greek?
Desiderius Erasmus
What did Luther say was one of God's greatest gifts to humanity?
Beer
Knight George
What Catholic theologian debated Luther at Leipzig?
Johann Eck
Who printed the first English translation of the Bible?
William Tyndale
Who was the French Renaissance scholar who translated the Bible into French?
Jaques Lefeure d'Etaples
Where did the word Quaker come from?
They shook so violently in church and when praying that it made the ground shake.