| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Erasmus | Publishes his Greek New Testament in 1516 |
| Erasmus | Writes "In Praise of Folly" |
| Erasmus | Laid the egg that Luther hatched |
| Erasmus | Foremost humanist of the Northern Renaissance |
| Martin Luther | Nailed his 95 theses on the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517 |
| Martin Luther | Believed that people could only be saved through faith in Jesus |
| Martin Luther | He led the Protestant movement |
| Martin Luther | He declared obstinate schismatic and a manifest heretic by Charles V |
| Zwingli | He used Erasmus' Greek New Testament to help him preach through the New Testament, verse by verse |
| Zwingli | A priest who lead the movement for religious reform in Switzerland |
| Zwingli | Disagreed with Luther about communion |
| Zwingli | He died in battle defending church reforms |
| Wycliffe | Reformer from England who was a professor at Oxford, lecturer, writer |
| Wycliffe | Translated the Bible into English |
| Hus | Reformer from Bohemia |
| Hus | Pastor at the Bethlehem |
| Hus | Preached sermons in Czech language |
| Hus | Followed the teachings of Wycliffe |
| Hus | Would not recant & was burned at the stake |
| 1516 | Erasmus's date |
| 1517 | Luther's 95 Theses posted |
| Calvin | Reformer from France |
| 1536 | Calvin's date |
| Calvin | Lawyer, humanist, scholar, pastor |
| Calvin | Wrote "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" |
| Calvin | Helped establish Geneva as the "Free City of Europe" |
| Calvin | trained pastors and missionaries |
| Anabaptists | Reformers from Switzerland (Zurich) |
| 1525 | Anabaptist's date |
| Anabaptists | Persecuted violently for over 200 years for practicing adult baptism |
| Tyndale | Reformer from England that was a Tutor & priest |
| 1536 | Tyndale's date |
| Tyndale | Translated the New Testament from Greek to English, had it printed & smuggled into England |
| Tyndale | Was strangled, then burned at the stake |
| Tyndale | His Bible was placed in every church throughout England two years after his death |
| Erasmus | Reformer from the Netherlands |
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