Forerunners
Reformation Figures
Terms
Places
Groups
100

This Oxford theologian who lived from 1320 - 1384 rejected the authority of the Catholic Church and argued for the supremacy of Scripture.

John Wycliffe

100

These two bishops in the Church of England were key figures in the English Reformation who were burned at the stake during the rule of Mary I ("Bloody Mary").

Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley

100

This is the theological term that was at the core of Martin Luther's theology.  It refers to how a believer is declared just before God on the basis of Jesus' imputed righteousness.

Justification

100

Martin Luther was excommunicated in 1521 at the Diet of _______.

Worms

100

This group included leaders like Conrad Grebel, Michael Sattler, and Balthasar Hubmaier.  They believed that the church should only be composed of professing believers, that baptism should only be administered to professing believers, and that the church should be completely divorced from any involvement with the state.

Anabaptists

200

This Bohemian cleric was burned at the stake in 1415 after being condemned by the Catholic Church officials at the Council of Constance.  

John (Jan) Huss

200

This English Reformer was burned at the stake by King Henry VIII for his attempts to translate the Bible from the Greek and Hebrew into English.  

William Tyndale

200

These were documents sold by the Catholic Church (and freelancers like Johann Tetzel) guaranteeing forgiveness of sins and remission of time in Purgatory.

Indulgences

200

John Calvin was both the church leader and governor of the city of ____________ in the Swiss cantons.

Geneva

200

This modern-day Christian sect traces its origins to the Anabaptist leader Menno Simons.

Mennonites

300

This group in medieval France was named for its founder, Peter Waldo.  They emphasized the supremacy of Scripture and rejected the traditions that the Catholic Church had added to the Scriptural teachings about salvation.

Waldenses or Waldensians

300

This Father of the Scottish Reformation studied in Geneva before returning to Scotland to lead the Reformation there.

John Knox

300

This term is the Catholic doctrine in which believers are punished and purified following death to make them ready for Heaven.

Purgatory

300

Ulrich Zwingli's reform movement took place in this Swiss city: __________.

Zurich

300

This group arose in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was unified by the desire to continue reforming and purifying the Church of England to make it more Scriptural.  

Puritans

400

These followers of John Wycliffe's teaching preached a proto-Protestant message throughout England and used John Wycliffe's English translation of the Vulgate; they were known by this originally pejorative nickname: ___________.

Lollards

400

This Humanist scholar from the Netherlands sought for moral reforms within the Catholic Church, though he also publicly disputed with Martin Luther about theology in an exchange of written works.

Desiderius Erasmus

400

The Protestant consensus was to only retain two of the Catholic Church's Seven Sacraments.  These were: ___________ and ____________.

Baptism and the Lord's Supper

400

Thomas Cranmer, one of the key leaders of the English Reformation, was the archbishop of _______.

Canterbury

400

This Catholic order was founded by Ignatius of Loyola with the goal of spreading the Catholic faith, teaching Catholic doctrine, refuting heresies like Protestantism, and being the Pope's "bulldogs".

Jesuits

500

This Florentine monk was executed by the government in Florence for his open attacks on the luxury and corruption of the Catholic Church and the rich members of the community.

Girolama Savonarola

500

This German Reformer was an "understudy" of Martin Luther, and he was influential in forming the Lutheran Confession of Augsburg in 1530.

Phillip Melancthon

500

This is the Catholic doctrine in which the bread and wine in the Eucharist are supernaturally transformed into the actual body and blood of Christ.

Transubstantiation

500
In between his initial stay in Geneva and his later ministry in Geneva, Calvin left and lived in the city of __________, where he worked with Martin Bucer.

Strasbourg

500

This group of English Protestants traces its roots to congregations in 1609 and 1611 led by Thomas Helwys and John Smyth.  They broke with the rest of the Puritans over their doctrine of baptism.

Baptists