Test One Flashcards
Types of Reformation: Catholic
- The church has all the necessary ingredients of Christianity
- Leave structure untouched but cleanse it
- Emphasis on moral and administrative reforms
Types of Reformation: Magisterial
- Church prior to RCC had necessary ingredients of Christianity
- Alter structure and doctrine of church to condition prior to papal domination
- Recreated church of first 5 centuries, NOT prior to Constantinian union of church and state
- Church to remain Church-State: magistrate initiates and supports reform and defends church
- Reform included moral and administrative concerns but mainly theological and ecclesiological
- Uniformity in doctrine still necessary
- Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Reformed, England
Types of Reformation: Radical
- Only primitive, Apostolic church provides true model
- Reform the church to pre-Constantinian type, which is NOT a state-church
- Reform was moral, administrative, theological, ecclesiological; emphasis was on primitiveness, voluntarism, and separation of church and state
Types of Radical Reformation: Biblical
- Used Bible was ultimate authority for reconstructing primitive church
- Examples: Anabaptists, later English Baptists
Types of Radical Reformation: Spiritualistic
- Emphasize immediacy and primacy of revelation from Holy Spirit; new revelations come to God’s prophets that augment and even supersede Scripture
- Examples: Zwickau prophets, Munster
Types of Radical Reformation: Rationalistic
- Human reason is authority in determining sense of Scripture and primitive model; challenge to doctrines of Trinity, vicarious atonement
- Examples: Servetus, Unitarians
Wycliffe (or Wyclif)
- Morningstar of the Reformation
- –Taught superiority of the Bible
- –Lectured through the Bible
- With followers translated Bible from Latin Vulgate into English
Huss (or Hus)
- Priest in Bohemia
- True church is composed of those chosen or predestined by God
- Christ, not Peter, is the Rock on which the church is built
- If pope and bishop does not obey the Bible, he is not to be obeyed
Charles V
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain during the time of Luther
Frederick the Wise
Protected Luther, was able to manipulate pope and emperor
Pope Leo X
- Pope during time of Luther
- Sold the archbishopric of Mainz to Albert of Brandenburg to raise money to build St. Peter’s
Tetzel
Hired by Albert of Brandenburg to sell indulgences
Melanchthon
- Luther’s Successor
- Attended Marbourg Colloquy; co-authored Augsburg Confession
Andreas Bodenstein “Karlstadt”
- Led reform in Luther’s absence
- Celebrated radical mass on Christmas 1521
- Instigated iconoclastic riots and removed images from churches
Katherine Von Bora
- Martin Luther married when he was 41
- Former nun
- Established model for Protestant Parsonage
- Parents of 6 children
Erasmus
- Desired moral reform of Catholic Church and helped pave way for Reformation, but was unwilling to break from Catholic Church
- Compared to Augustinianism of Lutger, Erasmus’ theology was tinged with Pelagianism
Thomas Muntzer
- Follower of Zwickau Prophets
- Became critical of Luther, when Luther did not go far enough with Reformation
- Advocated revolutionary means to obtain social justice
95 Theses (Luther)
- Written against sale of indulgences
- Nailed to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg on October 31st, 1517
- Translated, printed, and distributed throughout Germany within 2 weeks
An Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (Luther)
- Attacked three walls that pope erected around Scripture
- Insisted on “priesthood of believer”