The Core of the Matter
The Bible alone is our highest authority.
What is Sola Scriptura?
Although Martin Luther was born November 10, 1438, the Reformation took place in this century?
What is the 16th century?
Martin Luther completed the translation of the New Testament into this language in 1522.
What is German?
We are saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
What is Sola Fide?
Before the Reformation, this period of history began in the 5th century and saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the rise of Christianity, feudalism, the founding of many European nations, and conflicts like the Crusades.
What is the Middle Ages?
While in hiding after being declared an outlaw, Martin Luther was posing as a knight in this castle.
What is Wartburg Castle?
We are saved by the grace of God alone.
What is Sola Gratia?
Martin Luther was not the only person who worked to change the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Along with Calvin, Knox, and Cranmer these theologians shared the thoughts.
What are reformers?
To escape being accused of treason for harboring a fugitive and heretic, he orchestrated a "kidnapping" of Luther on his way home from the formal assembly.
Who was Prince Frederich?
What is Solus Christus?
The publication of the date of the 95 Theses is credited on this date.
What is October 31, 1517?
Change was happening in the church around Europe, in England, William Tyndale was translating the Bible into English using the same order as Luther had used for the New Testament. 90% of Tyndale's translation composed the 1611 version of this New Testament Bible.
What is the King James Version? FYI: more than 75% of the 20th Century Revised Standard Version
We live for the glory of God alone?
What is Soli Deo Gloria?
Not really a meal of invertebrates found in the soil, but a term used in 1521 to describe a formal assembly called by the Emperor Charles V summoning Martin Luther regarding his views of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the Diet of Worms?
If you remember this name, he was a faculty member of the University of Leuven in Flanders whose academic works were opposed to Martin Luther's views.
Who is Jacobus Latomus?