The Reformation

Question 1

Reasons for the Reformation

Answer 1

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 & Hebrew they discovered that the interpretations provided by the Church were not always accurate
Moral Factors
- Corruption was rampant in the 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

Question 2

Reformation Begins (leaders)

Answer 2

Martin Luther - Germany
Anabaptists (Zwingli) - Switzerland
John Calvin - Switzerland
Anglicans & Henry VII
Puritans & Separatists - England
William Tyndale - England

Question 3

Martin Luther - Diet of Worms

Answer 3

Ruling Council in Worms
Demanded that he review his writings and recant. Anger directed at the pope and the heads of the church.
“Unless I am convicted of error…and my conscience is taken captive by God’s word…I cannot and will not recant anything.” - Diet of Worms 1521

Question 4

Imperishable Principles of our Protestant Heritage

Answer 4

• Uniqueness of the Bible, the Word of God, the only rule of Faith and Practice
• The justification of the believer by faith alone, without words
• The priesthood of all believers
• Religious liberty
• Strengthening of the state and its deliverance from Subservience to Rome
• Ethical value of this life and the sanctity of daily labor and marriage, children, and the home
• Sanctity of human vocation, whether clerical or lay
• Virtues of thrift and industry

Question 5

Anabaptists

Answer 5

Swiss Reformer - Ulrich Zwingli
(Near contemporary of Luther)
First Protestant Synod - 1527
Baptism of ADULT BELIEVERS (not infants)
Pacifists
Separation of Church and State
On collision course with Catholic Church and the Pope

Question 6

John Calvin (TULIP)

Answer 6

T = total depravity
U = unconditional election
L = limited atonement
I = irresistible grace
P = perseverance of the saints

Question 7

Henry VII & the Anglicans

Answer 7

Henry VIII - Catholic - but Sovereign. Supreme head of the church of England. Once “defender of the faith”.
Edward VI - Protestant
Mary I - Catholic & reactionary
Elizabeth I - Protestant (limits)

Question 8

Henry VIII (wives)

Answer 8

Married Katherine of Aragon (Catholic) - divorced Mary Tudor
Anne Boleyn (Protestant) - executed Elizabeth
Jane Seymour - died in childbirth - Edward
Catherine Howard - executed
Anne of Cleves (ugly) - annulled
Catherine Parr - outlived Henry

Question 9

Henry VIII (political)

Answer 9

Act of Supremacy
Act of Succession
Sir Thomas More--Lord Chancellor
Once a friend of Henry
Executed after long imprisonment and political trial
Later canonized and made a saint

Question 10

Puritans & Separatists

Answer 10

Puritans - Purify the church from Popery
Separatists - separate to cleanse
Scroobys - Full immersion
Mayflower - Mayflower Compact Covenant
Baptists - "Believers Baptism"

Question 11

The Catholic Reformation

Answer 11

Oratory of Divine Love
Council of Trent - 1545
Development of Jesuits - Ignatius Loyola
Index of Books

Question 12

Percentage of Translation

Answer 12

About 90% of Tyndale’s words passed into the King James Version. Condemned to be strangled and burned at the stake - his last words were “Lord, open the eyes of the King of England.”

Question 13

Translation of Scripture

Answer 13

• Wycliffe–NT translated into English from Latin

- Tyndale–Bible translated from Greek and Hebrew and universally banned. The “Father of the English Bible”