III. People Flashcards
Know date, brief description and/or key work. Match each of 32 people with his time, nationality, ecclesiastical or theological affiliation, and an identifying work or writing. He must then select 4 (at least a century apart) and briefly explain the significance of each for the Church today.
Blaise Pascal
- 1623-1662
- French
- realted multiple disciplines to Bible
- Provincial Letters against the Jesuits with satire
- His Wager in Pensees
Part of the defense of the relationship between science and in the end of the 19 Century when sicence and christianity were put into opposition. Wager shows how logic and probability not at work–motivation of sin
Martin Luther
- 1483-1546
- German leader of the Protestant Reformation
- 95 Theses
- Bondage of the Will (against Free will of Erasmus and predestination of Erasmus)
John Calvin
- 1509-1564
- French Reformer
- Institutes of Christian Religion - systematic theology and theological compendium that became basis for Reformed Protestantism.
Origen
- 185-254
- Alexandria
- Apostolic Father
- On the First Principles (first systematic Christian theology), Against Celsus (apologetic showing compatibility with Platonism)
asceticism inspired monasticism, randsom theory of atonement,
Contra celsus is one of the greatest apologetics of antiquity–elevating the academic standard of Chrstianity
Oliver Cromwell
- 1599-1658
- English Parliamentarian and Lord and Protector of Commonwealth of Eng, Scotm and Ireland during Republic Commonwealth, leader of English civil war
- He set up a military dictatorship through the Rump Parliament. Supported Congregationalism When Charles II was restored, the king set up Episcopalianism.
Thomas Bradwardine
- 1290-1349
- English, Archbishop of Cantebruy and Profound Doctor
- The Cause of God against the Pelagians, encouaged the sovereignty of God along Augustine and Paul, and picked up by reformers
William Ames
- 1576-1633
- English
- Medulla Theological–New England textbook of theology, calvinist Arminian controversy
Ulrich Zwingli
- 1484-1531
- Swiss Reformer
- against Lutheran view of Eucharist
Philip Melanchthon
- 1497-1560
- German Lutheran reformer
- Lutheran Systematic theologian of Prot Reform
- Loci Communes
William Tyndale
- 1492-1536
- English
- martyred translator of Greek NT into English
Abraham Kuyper
- 1837-1920
- Dutch Prime Minister
- Founder of the Free University of Amsterdam
- Neo-Calvinist and transformation of culture
One of the first theologians to think about how the church should respond to modern life. Spheres of independence–power districbuted even to different spheres, not just invested in the state.
Christian express theoir uniqueness in every sphere.
Loyola Ignatius
- 1491-1556
- Spanish
- Founder of Jesuit religious order
Jesuits were a responsive and active body, particulalry in missions, education. Largest catholic religious order. Helped do mission during the counter reformation and win back protestant converts
Robert Bellarmine
- 1542-1621
- Italian
- leader of Counter Reformation
- Marian theologian, anti-protestant controversialist
One of the first and most capable apogist for the rc church against refomders
Jan Huss
- 1373-1415
- Czech preacher, reformer, martyr,
- Hussitism and Bohemian Reformation,
- predecessor to Protestantism
Attacked indulgences and the corruption of the pope in favor ot Scriptural authroity. Depended upon Wycliffe’s teachigns and scrioture
Moses Amyrald
- 1596-1664
- French
- inventor of Amryaldism or 4 point Calvinism, whereby God decreed Atonement universally and then elected who saved
Attempt for french to be flexible in the time of reformation’s decline