Reformation Vocabulary

Question 1

Martin Luther

Answer 1

Wrote the 95 these that began the Reformation

Question 2

95 Theses

Answer 2

Formal statements, attacking the “pardon-merchants” (indulgences)

Question 3

John Calvin

Answer 3

Believed that men and woman are sinful by nature, and that god chooses very few people to save.

Question 4

Henry VIII

Answer 4

King of England that was a devout Catholic and began the church of England

Question 5

Elizabeth I

Answer 5

Henry VIII’s second daughter; restored the Protestant church in England.

Question 6

Indulgence

Answer 6

A pardon releasing a person from punishments due to a sin.

Question 7

Predestination

Answer 7

The doctrine that god has decided all things beforehand.

Question 8

Theocracy

Answer 8

A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure

Question 9

Annul

Answer 9

To cancel or set aside

Question 10

Theism

Answer 10

Belief in gods

Question 11

Protestant

Answer 11

A member of the Christian church founded on the principles of the reformation

Question 12

Peace of Augsburg

Answer 12

An agreement made in 1555 declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler

Question 13

Reformation

Answer 13

16th century movement for religious reform. lead to founding of churches that rejected the pope’s authority

Question 14

Presbyterian

Answer 14

Member of Protestant church governed by elders and founded on the teachings of John Knox

Question 15

Anabaptist

Answer 15

Protestant that believes in babtizing only persons who are old enough to decide to be Christian and in seperating the church and the state

Question 16

Catholic (Counter) Reformation

Answer 16

16th century movement in which the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response to the Protestant Reformation