Reformation Flashcards
Wycliffe rules for study?
- Reliable text
- logic
- compare the parts
- humble seeking
- receive Holy Spirit instruction
Name the two reformist of the 14th and 15th century?
John Wycliff 14th century, John Hughes 15th century
What was the churches response to the to the dawn of the Reformation?
Only Latin was sacred
- Christ gave instructions to leaders not to masses. don’t throw your pearls before the swine. The Bible cannot be put into the vernacular for the common people.
- Removed all Bible text from anyone but Ordained priests
- WyCliff condemned as a heretic and 1377
John Hus
He was fascinated with with Cliff-support of the teaching of Scripture as only source of authority-Opposed the Archbishop move to stop publishing the scripture (said no)
–burned at the stake in 1414-called the burning goose
Reasons for the reformation
The Reformation ( reasons ) -Political factors >establishment of centralized nation-states who opposed a universal church -Economic factors >Nation states did not want their tax dollars going to Rome. -Intellectual Factors >as people studied the Greek and Hebrew they discovered that the interpretations provided buy the church were not always accurate -Moral Factors Corruption was rampant in church -Social Factors middle class was developing -Theological Factors Scripture plus some other form of authority tradition took over Scripture Inaccessibility of Scripture works over faith
Martin Luther
Martin Luther- from Germany-Diet of worms
Demanded that he review his writing and recant. Anger directed at the pope and the heads of the Church
1830 his movement was spreading all over Germany, and it starts spreading all over Europe
Imperishable principles of our protestant and heritage
-Uniqueness of the Bible, the word of God, the only rule faith and practice,-the justification of the believer by faith alone without works-the priesthood of all believers-religious liberty-strengthening of the state in this deliverance from subservience to Rome-Ethical value of this life and the sanctity of daily labor and of marriage, children, and the home-sanctity of human vocation, whether clerical or Lay-virtue of thrift and industry
Anabaptists
Zwingli - Switzerland Swiss reformer -Zwingli First protestant Synod- 1527 Baptism of Adult Believers (Not infants ) Pacifists Separation of Church and state On Collision course with Catholic church
John Calvin
T = total depravity U= Unconditional election L= Limited atonement I= irresistible Grace P= perseverance of the saints Switzerland Born in northern France - he reasoned that some are saved and others are predestined to be lost
Henry VIII & Anglicans
Catholic - but Sovereign. Supreme head of the Church of England. Once “defender of the Faith
Married his brothers wife, Katherine of Aragon (Spanish ). They have a girl named Mary.
He then marries Anne B. (executed)and have Elizabeth I
Jane Seymour- died in childbirth - Edward
Catherine Howard– executed
Anne of Cleves-annulled
Catherine Parr- Outlived Henry
Henry VIII contd.
Cramer- Helped to brake form the Catholic Church( Anglican Church)
Sir Thomas Mora-Lord Chancellor- the advisor for Henry(good friends)
Once a friend of Henry
Executed after long imprisonment and political trial
Later canonized and made a saint
Act of supremacy
King of England is the ultimate authority politically and religiously in the state of England (Not the Pope )
Act of Succession
Monarchy will stay within family- offspring succession
“My children are legitimately in the line to become monarch of this country”
Henry’s children
Edward VI- Protestant -
Mary I- Catholic & reactionary - Brought England back to Catholicism- by force
Elizabeth I - Protestant (limits)- Wanted people to pay their taxes-
Who ruled after Henry’s monarchy ?
James 6th of Scotland became James 1st of England- King James Version
