Protestant Reformation Flashcards
Whose followers were called Lollards?
John Wycliffe
Whose followers were called Calvinist?
John Calvin
Whose followers were called Mennonites?
Menno Simmons?
Whose followers were called Lutherans?
Martin Luther
Who was called the “morning star of the reformation”? And why?
John Wycliffe. He’s the earliest reformer.
Produced the first printed English translation New Testament
William Tyndale
Started the Scottish reformation
John Knox
“People’s Priest” of Zurich
Urich zwingli
Wrote “The Institutes of the Christian Religion”
John Calvin
Why was this book important
Handbook for reformers
Founded the “Brethren of the Common Life”
Gerard groote
Printed the first edition of the New Testament in original Greek
Desiderius Erasmus
Why was it important to have the Bible in its original Greek
So it would make sense
Bohemian reformer was head of the university of Prague
John Huss
What city was called Protestant Rome?
Geneva