Chapter 14-The Prodestant Reformation Flashcards
One of the foremost scholars of the Northern Renaissance was the German ___________, who mastered the Hebrew language and revolutionized the study of the Old Testament in its original language.
Johann Reuchlin
Who was one of the important German scholars of the Northern Renaissance who was a master of Greek, Latin, classical literature, and the Word of God?
Philipp Melanchthon
Among the most prominent of English scholars was _____________, a graduate of Oxford University who traveled through Europe to other universities and schools to study the humanities.
John Colet
Who was a Englishman who was the king’s chancellor, was an important political figure and scholar in England and was strongly influenced by Colet’s teaching as he pursued his own studies in the humanities?
Thomas More
Who was an important figure influenced by John Colet and produced the first printed English translation of the New Testament from the original Greek?
William Tyndale
Who was one of the leading French Renaissance scholars around the late 1400s?
Lefèvre d’Etaples
What was the cardinal doctrine of the Protestant Reformation?
Justification by faith alone
William Tyndale completed his first edition of the New Testament in English from Greek in _________while staying in Germany, and had 3,000 copies printed and smuggled into England.
1525
The most famous figure of the Northern Renaissance was ____________, a scholar from the Netherlands who expressed the need for reform in the church in his works “Colloquies,” “Adagia,” “Handbook of a Christian Soldier,” and “In Praise of Folly.”
Desiderius Erasmus
When did Erasmus publish the first printed edition of the New Testament in the original Greek?
1516
By 1500, the revival of learning had spread north from Italy into other parts of Europe, and the movement known as the ______________ had begun in such countries as Germany, France, the Netherlands, and England.
Northern Renaissance
Who was the man who began the Protestant Reformation and was born in Eisleben, Germany into a middle-class family?
Martin Luther
Luther graduated from the University of ___________ in 1505 with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in liberal arts.
Erfurt
In 1507, Luther was ordained as a priest, and a year later, Luther went to teach at the new University of:
Wittenberg
Luther’s studies climaxed when he finally understood Romans 1:16-17 which mainly states:
The just shall live by faith
What German aristocrat, in 1507, appointed a Dominican friar to travel through Germany and sell indulgences?
Albert of Brandenburg
In 1517, Albert of Brandenburg appointed a Dominican friar named _____________ to travel through Germany and sell indulgences.
Johann Tetzel
What is a papal certificate that excused a person from doing penance and shortened the required stay in purgatory before going to Heaven?
Inulgences
Half of the money that was made through the selling of the indulgences would go to Albert, who had recently purchased the leading church office in Germany; the other half to Pope __________ for the construction of a cathedral in Rome in honor of St. Peter.
Leo X
When did Luther serve notice that he was ready to debate indulgences and nailed the Ninety-five Theses to the church door?
October 31, 1517
On October 31, 1517, Luther went to the church in Wittenberg and nailed a list of statements called the __________ to the church door.
Ninety-five Theses
The movement Luther began in 1517 is called the _________________ because Luther and others protested the corrupt practices of the Roman church and at first sought to reform the church, restoring it to the authority of the Scriptures, rather than to withdraw from it.
Protestant Reformation
The followers of the Protestant Reformation are called:
Protestants
