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Who were the Puritans?

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A group of people who wanted to purify the Church of England

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Why did the Puritans want to purify the church?

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  • Believed the church had become too Catholic

- Immorality was significant

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The Puritans are known for what?

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  • spirited of morality

- religious earnestness

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As far as salvation goes, Puritans believed…

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  • In order to be saved one had to have a relationship with God
  • salvation would be revealed through preaching
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Which English monarch was responsible for exiling Protestants?

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Bloody Mary

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Which monarch reestablished England as a Protestant nation?

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Queen Elizabeth

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What are some significant events for the Puritans?

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  • 1534 Act of Supremacy
  • 1549- First book of common prayer
  • 1555 Queen Mary kills off many protestants
  • 1611 King James Bible
  • 1649 Puritan supporter Oliver Cromwell takes over England
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What beliefs did the Puritans hold?

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  • God was in all things, including the small ones
  • all jobs had a value
  • working glorifies God, being lazy does not
  • wealth is a blessing and not earned
  • church policy was based on Bible alone
  • church should be separate from gov’t control
  • accessibility of the Bible
  • encouragement of education
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Who is James Arminius?

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  • Dutch reformed theologian
  • took a Latinized form of his last name when he studied theology
  • most known for the Calvist-Arminian controversy
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Arminian theology was formed…

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  • after the death of Jacob Arminius
  • formalized in Five Articles of Remonstrance
  • theology was condemned by the State church at the Synod of Dort
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The Synod of Dort

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  • Kangaroo court of sorts

- called those following Arminius’ theology heretics

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The Five Articles of Remonstrance

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  • an expression of protest against Calvinist doctrine of predestination
  • Christ came to save all, not just the elect
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Who was William Tyndale?

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  • theologian and scholar
  • gifted linguist (knew 8 languages!!!)
  • translated the Bible into English
  • burned at the stake for his views
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What was the Protestant Reformation?

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  • a revelation in religious thought an practice
  • caused many years of violent conflict
  • changed the map of Europe
  • power shift from the church to the secular world
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What was the Unam Sanctam?

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  • papal bull issued by Pope Boniface
  • stated that all temporal powers were subject to the Pope
  • caused the French to move the papacy to Avignon
  • caused popes to pop up all over the place
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What was the Bubonic Plague?

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  • “Black Death”
  • 1348-1351
  • spread by fleas on rats
  • Jews were blamed for the outbreak
  • led to penitential flagellation (whipping themselves)
  • killed a third of the population in Europe
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Who was John Wycliff?

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  • major critic of the Church
  • believed church should be a spiritual body without wealth or temporal power
  • advocated for the abolition of the entire papal system
  • believed that people should be taught in their native tongue, not Latin (preached in Czech)
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Who was John Huss?

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  • emphasized the Scriptures
  • was burned at the stake in 1415
  • promised safe passage to a council but this was a pretense
  • believed that lower societies should be able to drink from the cup and that bishops should not be the only ones to hold such privilege
  • Pope John Paul issued an apology for his death in 2001
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What were indulgences?

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  • essentially “Get out of Hell” cards sold for money
  • this was to cover sins
  • came out of the crusades
  • eventually led to the philosophy that paying for the good work was as good (if not better) than doing the good work
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Who was John Tetzel?

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  • corrupt man who sold indulgences
  • claimed he had an indulgence that would cover the sins of of dead people
  • was one of the many contributing factors of Martin Luther’s split from the Catholic church
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What were the reasons for reformation?

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  • the nations did not like that the pope was in charge of their affairs
  • tax money was going to Rome
  • people found that the Biblical interpretation was not always accurate
  • corruption of the Church
  • the middle class was developing
  • the Bible was not accessible
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Who were the fathers of the Reformation?

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  • Martin Luther
  • Anabaptists (led by Zwingli)
  • John Calvin
  • Anglicans
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Some facts about Martin Luther…

highlights of his life

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  • son of a miner
  • went to law school
  • became a monk after a scary instance with a thunderstorm
  • saw that corruption in the church was rampant; sees even more corruption when he goes to the Vactican
  • becomes a theology professor at University of Wittenburg
  • nailed 95 Theses to the door of the chapel on Halloween in 1517 condemning the sale of indulgences
  • claimed Pope had no authority to interpret Scriptures
  • excommunicated in 1521 for his “heretical” beliefs
  • translated the New Testament into German
  • formed Lutheran Church
  • married Katherine Von Bora and had six children
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Who was John Calvin?

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  • believed that people were predestined
  • forced to leave France by anti-Protestants and went to Geneva
  • became the Supreme Leader of Geneva
  • led to Geneva becoming the center of Protestantism
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What is T.U.L.I.P.?

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-belief system of Calvinists
T-total depravity
U-unconditional election
L-limited atonement
I-irresistible grace
P-perseverance of the saints
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Who was Ulrich Zwingli?

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-was a priest in Switzerland as well as a mercenary
-began to question Catholics because of Humanism
-converts entire town of Zurich
-met to unite with Luther but they could not agree with what was said at the Last Supper
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How was the Anglican church formed?

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-King Henry VIII wanted to annul his marriage with Catherine of Aragon but the pope would not do it
separated from the Catholic church as a result
-King Henry dissolved the monasteries and convents and increased England’s wealth

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What are the imperishable principles of Protestant heritage?

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  • the Word of God is the only rule of faith and practice
  • believers are justified by faith alone
  • priesthood of all believers
  • religious liberty
  • ethical value of this life
  • sanctity of human vocation
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Who was Galileo?

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  • mathematician
  • father of modern science
  • studied in a Jesuit monastery
  • theory on the pendulum
  • built a telescope to study the heavens
  • conducted experiments to prove thoughts
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Who was Sir Isaac Newton?

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  • created calculus
  • wrote principia which details the laws on gravity and gives mathematical evidence
  • warned against using gravity to view the universe as a mere machine
  • believed God created the world
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Who was Immanuel Kant?

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  • focused on ethics
  • created the categorical imperative (if you can do the action, then it would be all right for everyone in the world to perform the same action)
  • believed morality should come from rationality not religion
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Who was Voltaire?

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  • witty writer
  • attracted to the philosophies of John Locke
  • received education at a Jesuit college in Paris
  • wrote a book praising England (which was a no-no because he was French)
  • was denied burial on church grounds and his remains were dumped
  • brain went missing after an auction and heart was put in a jar
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What did Jakob Spener do for the church?

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  • started the Pietists movement
  • held Bible studies (those who attended were called Pietists”
  • published Pia Desideria which emphasized regular Bible reading, responsibility of all believers, fruits of a living faith, ministerial training with an focus on piety and learning, and preaching with the aim of edification
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Who was Augustus Herman Franke?

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  • Protestant religious leader
  • was influenced by Jakob Spener
  • taught theology and oriental languages at the University of Halle
  • church had a school for the poor, orphanage, medical dispensary, and a publishing house
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Who was Nikolaus Ludwig count von Zinzendorf?

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  • son of Saxon minister and influenced by Pietist grandmother (who was an aristocrat with a large estate)
  • after grandmother’s death used his estate to house Moravians and other tenants
  • helped establish the Moravians in Herrnhut
  • excommunicated by Luthernism because of this
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What are the main characteristics of pietism?

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  • Christianity is to be found in a meaningful relationship with God
  • the understanding of religious “idealism”
  • Biblical emphasis and how it can be applied to every day life
  • introduction of the opposite (in other words, Christians who weren’t really Christians were exposed as such)
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Who was Blaise Pascal?

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  • a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian
  • came up with the theory of probability
  • came up with his famous wager -> belief in God is wise. What will happen if He does no exist and you believe? Nothing. But what will happen if He does exist and you do not believe??? (hell)
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Who was John Wesley?

Highlights

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  • founder of the Methodist church
  • never “converted” to Methodism-remained an Anglican till his death
  • life changing experience on board a ship with some Moravians and again at Aldersgate
  • attended Oxford
  • was a member of the “Holy Club” (took communion 3x a week, studied the Bible 3 hours a day)
  • became a ministry partner with George Whitefield
  • great organizer
  • went 4,000 miles annually and preached 40,000 sermons
  • moral and spiritual tone of “do the good you can”

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