Key Figures/Groups
He laid the egg which Luther hatched in the Reformation by completing the first printed Greek New Testament for scholars to read.
Erasmus
This is not about eating grubs but concerns a meeting where Luther was condemned for his false doctrines after he refuses to recant his writings.
Diet of Worms
The Roman Catholic church required members to confess their sins to a priest and receive absolution. The priest would prescribe the punishment or actions which would be required for forgiveness to be complete.
Penance
This doctrine asserts that it is God who chooses those who will be saved. It is not a decision God makes because of some action on our part nor does it originate from our own personal decision.
Unconditional Election
This man served as Pope during the beginnings of the Reformation, and excommunicated Martin Luther.
Leo X
He is often referred to as the morning star of the Reformation because he questioned papal authority and translated the Scriptures into English for the commoner. He was denounced as a heretic after his death and his bones were exhumed and burned.
Wycliffe
In an act of protest against the false doctrine of the Catholic church, a monk nailed this document to the door of the church in Wittenberg. This is often considered the beginning of the Reformation.
The 95 Theses
After death, Christians enter purgatory, a holding place to atone for unconfessed sin. Their relatives could pay money to the church which would reduce the time they had to spend in purgatory.
Indulgences
When God chooses to place His favor on a person, that person will be saved. Regeneration in the heart of a believer is the work of God alone, no one will ever thwart God’s saving plan.
Irresistible Grace
Not a rodeo animal, it’s a public decree issued by the head of the Catholic church named for the lead seal that authenticates it.
Papal Bull
This man rebelled against the Pope and instituted the Church of England. The pope had refused to accommodate King Henry’s desire to divorce his first wife as she had not produced a male heir.
King Henry VIII
Invention of this machine enabled written communication to be duplicated far more quickly.
The Gutenberg press
Because the Roman Catholic Church places the authority of Church tradition above Scripture, this individual holds infallible rule over the church.
The Pope
The doctrine which acknowledges original sin began with Adam and is at the core of all humankind. Only the regeneration of God can affect this condition. “Oh, God, I was born in sin, and in sin did my mother conceive me” (Ps. 51:5).
Total Depravity
Considered the embodiment of the Roman Catholic counter reformation, this ecumenical gathering lasted from 1545-1563 in a town in northern Italy.
Council of Trent
A second generation reformer this theologian is known for his keen writings among which are The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
John Calvin
This was translated into German by Martin Luther so that the common people could read it for themselves.
New Testament
This doctrine asserts that the communion elements of bread and wine take on the physical presence of Jesus Christ, hence they become his actual physical body and blood.
Transubstantiation
What God starts in our souls, He will bring to completion. The elect will not lose their faith.
Perseverance of the Saints
At one time, three men claimed that they were the “infallible” head of the Roman Catholic church. They were ruling in these 3 locations.
Avignon, Rome, Pisa
These reformers believed that baptism was only for believers and not for children or infants.
Radical reformers or Anabaptists
This nun escaped from her convent in Nimbschen and later became Martin Luther’s wife. She was also known for her hospitality and skills brewing beer.
Katharina von Bora
This key doctrine promoted by the reformation leaders states God does not accept sinners by making them righteous, or by giving them heavenly grace, but solely on the basis of the death and resurrection of His Son in the place of the sinner.
Justification
Christ’s death pays the debt only for those who are elect alone.
Limited Atonement
This vow prohibiting marriage is required for all who would serve as priests within the Roman Catholic church.
Celibacy