Starter quiz
- Which keyword means to be to be banned from Church services and the community?
- 'excommunicated' ✓
- Complete the following sentence: The Lutheran ______ led to widespread religious and political reform over the next few centuries.
- 'Reformation' ✓
- Complete the sentence: Luther believed that nothing humans could do would guarantee salvation; only faith in ______ alone would reward them with a place in Heaven.
- 'God' ✓
- What did Luther do during his 'captivity'?
- He wrote the pope an apology letter.
- He wrote the ‘Defence of the Seven Sacraments’.
- He translated the Bible into German. ✓
- He translated the Bible into Latin.
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- What title did Pope Leo X give to Henry VIII to show how pleased he was with him?
- Holy Roman Emperor
- 'Defender of the Church’
- 'Defender of the Peace’
- 'Defender of the Faith’ ✓
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- What other event did Luther's challenge to the Church's authority inspire?
- the English Civil War
- the German Civil War
- the English Peasants’ War
- the German Peasants’ War ✓
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Exit quiz
- Match the keywords to the correct definitions.
- reformer/reformist⇔someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion ✓
- Catholic⇔a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church ✓
- Protestant⇔a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope ✓
- Which of the following words describes the teaching that the bread and wine used in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ?
- consubstantiation
- transubstantiation ✓
- symbolic
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- What was the main difference between Wycliffe and Hus and Luther?
- Luther had the support of the Holy Roman Emperor
- Luther had the support of the pope
- the invention and use of the telegram
- the invention and use of the printing press ✓
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- Complete the sentence: Protestant works were written in German so that people could read and understand them, whereas Catholic works were generally written in ______.
- 'Latin' ✓
- Who founded the Swiss Reformed Church in July 1522 inspired by Luther's teachings?
- Martin Zwingli
- Huldrych Zwingli ✓
- Henry V
- Henry VIII
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- What was the name of an important Protestant reformer who organise Geneva's government based around Protestantism and a strict set of rules?
- 'John Calvin' ✓
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Key learning points
- The printing press helped to spread Luther's ideas around Europe.
- Different people took up Luther's ideas and added to them.
- Zwingli believed that icons, relics and music distracted people from worship and should be removed.
- Groups of Protestants emerged who believed in the views of different leaders like Zwingli and Luther.
Common misconception
Protestantism is a single unified religion.
There are, today, thousands of different Christian denominations that can be considered versions of Protestantism. Almost from its very inception, Protestantism split into a variety of competing belief systems.
Keywords
Reformer/reformist - someone who tries to change and improve something, such as a religion
Catholic - a Christian who believes that the pope has authority over the Church
Protestant - a member of a Western Church which does not recognise the pope as its head
Reformation - a 16th century movement calling for the reform of the Church
Transubstantiation - the teaching that the bread and wine used in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ
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