Chapter 14

Question 1

What was the revival of learning that spread north of Italy but also realized that there is not book about man or any other subject as important as the Bible?

Answer 1

Northern Renaissance

Question 2

Who was one of the foremost scholars of the Northern Renaissance who revolutionized the study of the Old Testament in its original language?

Answer 2

Johann Reuchlin

Question 3

Who wrote the first systematic theology of the Protestant Reformation and the first Protestant confession of faith?

Answer 3

Phili Melanchthon

Question 4

Who was among the most prominent of English scholars who studied the Holy Scriptures and preached against the hypocrisy of the Roman clergy?

Answer 4

John Colet

Question 5

Who urged the church to reform the clergy and correct certain doctines?

Answer 5

Thomas More

Question 6

Who produced the first printed English translation of the New Testament from the original Greek?

Answer 6

William Tyndale

Question 7

Who was one of the leading French Renaissance scholars?

Answer 7

Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples

Question 8

When did William Tyndale have 3000 copies of the New Testament printed and smuggled into England?

Answer 8

1525

Question 9

Who was the most famous figure of the Northern Renaissance?

Answer 9

Desiderius Erasmus

Question 10

When did Erasmus publish the first printed edition of the New Testament in its original Greek?

Answer 10

1516

Question 11

What was the university that Luther graduated from with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in liberal arts?

Answer 11

Erfurt

Question 12

What was the university that Luther went to teach at after he was ordained as a priest?

Answer 12

Wittenberg

Question 13

What was the Bible verse that led Luther to salvation?

Answer 13

Romans 1: 16-17

Question 14

Who was the German aristocrat who appointed a Dominican friar named Johann Tetzel to travel through Germany and sell indulgences?

Answer 14

Albert of Brandenburg

Question 15

Who was the Dominican friar appointed to travel through Germany and sell indulgences?

Answer 15

Johann Tetzel

Question 16

What were papal certificated that excused a person from doing penance and shortened the required stay in purgatory before going to Heaven?

Answer 16

indulgences

Question 17

Who was the pope to whom the other half of the money from Johann Tetzel’s selling of indulgences would go in order to fund the building of St. Peter’s Cathedral?

Answer 17

Pope Leo X

Question 18

What was the day before All Saints Day when Luther nailed the Ninety-five Thesis to the church door at Wittenburg?

Answer 18

October 31, 1517

Question 19

What was a list of statements of things that the church needed to reform?

Answer 19

Ninety-five Theses

Question 20

What was the movement that Luther began in 1517?

Answer 20

Protestant Reformation

Question 21

What were the followers of the Protestant Reformation called?

Answer 21

Protestants

Question 22

Who was the elector of Luther’s part in Germany who decided that Luther should receive a hearing on German soil?

Answer 22

Frederick the Wise

Question 23

What is an assembly of princes and high church official in the Holy Roman Empire?

Answer 23

diet

Question 24

What was the diet that was at odds with the papacy where Luther refused to recant some of his Theses?

Answer 24

Diet of Augsburg

Question 25

Who was renowned Romanist theologian who Luther debated at the University of Leipzig?

Answer 25

Johann Eck

Question 26

Where was the debate the forced Luther to clarify his views on the Roman church and the papacy?

Answer 26

University of Leipzig

Question 27

What was the tract that Martin Luther wrote attacking the "walls" that the Roman church had built?

Answer 27

To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation

Question 28

What was the tract that Luther wrote comparing the papacy to ancient Babylon's seizure of the people of Israel?

Answer 28

The Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Question 29

What was the tract the Martin Luther wrote where Luther addressed himself directly to the pope?

Answer 29

The Freedom of the Christian Man

Question 30

Who was the Holy Roman Emperor who agreed that Martin Luther should come to the diet that would meet in the city of Worms?

Answer 30

Charles V

Question 31

What was the city where Luther was called to be asked to recant, yet he still stood firm in his faith?

Answer 31

Worms

Question 32

What was the edict declaring Luther a heretic and an outlaw?

Answer 32

Edict of Worms

Question 33

Where did Martin Luther hide after the Edict of Worms as Knight George?

Answer 33

Wartburg Castle

Question 34

Under what name did Martin Luther hide in Wartburg Castle?

Answer 34

Knight George

Question 35

What was the first Protestant university?

Answer 35

University of Wittenberg

Question 36

Who compiled the first Protestant hymnbook?

Answer 36

Martin Luther

Question 37

What was one of the most famous hymns that Martin Luther composed?

Answer 37

"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"

Question 38

Who was the former nun who Martin Luther married?

Answer 38

Katharina von Bora

Question 39

Who were the followers of Martin Luther who took a courageous stand for the Bible and spiritual freedom against the distortions of the Romanist church?

Answer 39

Lutherans

Question 40

What is the land of the snowcapped mountains to the south of Germany where some of the most influential Protestant groups arose?

Answer 40

Switzerland

Question 41

What were the thirteen provinces in Switzerland called?

Answer 41

cantons

Question 42

How were the cantons said to be united even though, in fact, they were independent of one another?

Answer 42

Swiss Confederation

Question 43

Who was the priest who stepped forward to attack the sale of indulgences, starting the Reformation in Switzerland?

Answer 43

Ulrich Zwingli

Question 44

What was the Swiss city where Zwingli was appointed as priest?

Answer 44

Zurich

Question 45

Who became associated with a group of Renaissance Frend scholars and was committed to the Protestant faith?

Answer 45

John Calvin

Question 46

What was the city where John Calvin took refuge in, undertaking a detailed study of the Bible?

Answer 46

Basel

Question 47

What is the single most influential book of the Protestant Reformation apart from the Bible?

Answer 47

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Question 48

What was the city that Calvin later moved to that was also called the Protestant Rome?

Answer 48

Geneva

Question 49

Who was another Frech Protestant who persuaded Calvin to come and assist in the further reform of the churches in Geneva?

Answer 49

Guillaume Farel

Question 50

What have many Christian denominations following John Calvin's teachings considered themselves to be?

Answer 50

Calvinists

Question 51

Who led a group of Protestants who called themselves the Swiss Brethren?

Answer 51

Conrad Grebel

Question 52

What was the name given to the Swiss Brethren by their enemies that means "rebaptizer"?

Answer 52

Anabaptists

Question 53

Who were Protestants who trace their lineage directly back to Menno Simons?

Answer 53

Mennonites

Question 54

Who was an Anabaptist preacher in Hollan who "turned to the Lord in penitence and faith and was fully changed"?

Answer 54

Menno Simons

Question 55

What are two other groups related to the Anabaptist movement?

Answer 55

Amish and Quakers

Question 56

What is the largest group of Christians who look back to the Anabaptists?

Answer 56

Baptist