Influencers
This surprising figure paved the way for a Reformation by his reform, which brought monastic spirituality to lay people and encouraged the preaching of the word in a way distinct from the Mass.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
German Augustinian monk and priest who is credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation
Who is Martin Luther?
A major abuse in the Catholic Church at the time of Luther was the selling of these.
What are indulgences?
Body parts, pieces of clothing, or other items owned by Saints which Catholics venerate.
What are relics?
This is the belief that the substance of bread and wine changes into the substance of Christ.
What is Transubstantiation?
This religious group issued a reform that called for monks of this order to return to an earlier observance of their Rule.
Who are the Benedictines?
A French theologian who is considered one of the major reformers during the Protestant reformation. He believed there should be a coherent and authoritative voice to teach the Bible.
Who is John Calvin?
As a part of his Church reform, Pope St. Gregory dispensed Catholic faithful from corrupt members of this clerical state.
Who are the bishops?
The disposition many people attribute to Medieval Catholic, which caused them to live in constant fear of the Confessional and doubt about their salvation.
What is Scrupulosity?
The belief that makes Sacred Scripture the sole rule of faith.
What is Sola Scriptura?
The name of the Reform of a certain religious order in the 9th century that also had a significant impact on Pope St. Gregory VII.
What is the Cluniac Reform?
A Swiss Theologian who led the reformation in Switzerland.
Where corruption alone a sufficient cause for something like the Reformation, then the Church would have been experiencing similar things since the __________.
What is "the beginning"?
This form of monastic spirituality characterized a lot of Medieval Christianity.
What is Benedictine monasticism?
The belief that when the priest speaks the words of consecration, the substance of Christ comingles with the substance of bread.
What is Consubstantiation?
A piece of wood that had sacred images engraved on it. It would be passed around by lay people and kissed to symbolize their unity with one another in Christ.
The Catholic Theologian to whom Luther is responding to in his book On the Bondage of the Will.
Who is Erasmus?
This famous reformer rejects the notion that corruption is the main cause of the Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
"No one should take the _______ if he has not fasted and is without mortal sin. For, whoever takes it in great faith receives the body of our Lord spiritually."
What is the "pax board"?
The remission of temporal consequence due to sin that has already been forgiven.
What is an indulgence?
Lay people would pass around blessed bread to symbolize a spiritual communion with Christ. This indicated a fundamental misunderstanding of what significant part of Catholic belief?
What is the Eucharist?
This was the year that Martin Luther wrote his famous 95 Theses, which contested the selling of indulgences and questioned papal authority to grant indulgences.
When is 1517?
The name of the belief that the Church needed to return to a primitive and pristine form of Christianity.
What is Primitivism?
This invention permitted a greater dissemination of books for lay spirituality and prayer was possible.
What is the printing press?
Being made right with God, which we receive by the merits of Christ on the Cross.
What is Justification?