Church History 2, Study Guide
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Questions from Notes:
What are reasons for studying
church history?
What are the approaches of
ordinary and Providentialist historians and how do
they differ?
What is the work of the
theological historian?
When people talked about the
church needing to be reformed in “head and in members” what were they primarily
thinking about?
By medieval times how had the
church changed from the original NT times:
a. in organization? b. in
doctrine? c.
in worship? d.
in life?
Who were the Waldensians?
From whom did Wyclif believe men received their positions?
What happened to Wyclif’s body over 40 years after his death?
In what did Wyclif see the ideal church?
Who was the English reformer
who rejected many of the teachings of the Roman Church and advocated Scripture
as the highest authority?
Who were the Lollards?
Who was the “morning star of
the reformation?”
Who wrote that “the highest
service to which man may attain on earth is to preach the law of God”?
What was conciliarism
and who were its leading advocates?
What was the “Babylonian
captivity of the Papacy”?
What was the (2nd)
Great Schism?
What were the 3 major councils
during the era of conciliarism and what were the
results of each?
Which Pope finally ended Conciliarism for all practical purposes?
What was the great failing of
Conciliarism?
What new force entered the
scene for reform?
Who was the great
Czech/Bohemian reformer of the 15th century who was burned at the
Council of Constance in 1415?
Who was the emperor who
promised this reformer safe conduct and then retracted it?
Various Czech reformers,
believed the church should be reformed/restored based on a return to what?
What was the name of the
famous chapel where John Hus preached his reforms to large crowds?
What English reformer had a
great influence on Hus?
What was the first university
of central Europe?
Who was the Great 14th
century Holy Roman Emperor whose reign set the stage for reform in Bohemia?
Who was the weak son of this
Emperor?
Who were Conrad of Waldhausen, Milič of Kroměříž, Matthew of Janov,
and Tomas of Štítný and what was their desire?
For Hus, who or what was the
head of the Church?
What revolutionary practice
did Hus approve shortly before he died?
Who took over leadership of
the movement after Hus died?
What became the symbol of the
Hussites/Bohemians?
Be able to identify important
figures of the Bohemian/Hussite Reformation.
What were the three separate
groups that were battling for control in Bohemia in the 15th
century?
What did the “moderates come
to be called?”
Who became their leader?
What did the “radical” Hussites come to be called?
Know the Four Articles of
Prague and their significance?
What was the difference
between the “radicals” and the “moderates”?
How many crusades did the
Roman Catholic church send against the Hussites in the years 1420-1431?
Who was the great blind
general of the Hussite forces?
Who was the spiritual leader
of the “Taborites”?
What did Catholic and Hussite delegates agree to in the town of
Where was it that the Catholic
delegates agreed that in controversial matters, “the law of God, the practice
of Christ, of the apostles and of the primitive church, along with the councils
and teachers who are truly based on it” would be “received as the truest and
impartial judge”?
At what battle was the power
of the Taborites broken?
Who defeated them?
What was the basic position
agreed to in the Prague Compact?
What were the 5 revolutionary
principles the Taborites preached on their
mountaintop meetings?
What does the term “communion
in both kinds” mean?
What was the goal of the Taborites regarding the church?
Who was Petr
Chelcicky, and what was his position?
What group survived after the
Taborites and carried on their theological legacy?
Who founded this group?
Be able to identify the
authors of various important theological works we mention (such as, but not
limited to De Ecclesia, Confession and Defense of Tabor, On the Truth of the Holy Scriptures) and
what they are about, if we mention it.
Who published the Greek NT in
1516?
Who believed that the church
could be reformed through education and a return to the primitive sources of
Christian truth—the Bible and early church fathers?
Who published many of the
Greek and Latin fathers of the church, making scholarly knowledge of the early
church available to the reformers?
How did Erasmus influence the
reformers?
Know about Erasmus.
Questions from North
What pope moved the papal
court to Avignon, thus beginning the Avignon Papacy?
Approximately how long did
this last?
What nation dominated the
papacy during this time?
What caused the Great Schism
of the the late 14th to mid 15th
centuries?
About how long did this
schism last?
Who were the “poor
preachers”?
Who reached the conclusion
that only elders and deacons were orders of ministry established by Christ?
Who was Wyclif’s
“Bohemian counterpart”?
In what languages did John
Hus preach?
According to North, was Hus
more concerned about moral reform or ecclesiastical revolution?
According to North, what was
Hus’s greatest work?
Which friend of Hus was
burned almost exactly one year after Hus?
Who were the Moravian
Brethren?
Who was Gerard DeGroot?
What was
the Brethren of the Common Life?
What were the “Three Estates”
of medieval times?
What was the great council
that was called to settle the schism and instead resulted in 3 rival popes?
According to North, for what
3 reasons was the council of Constance called?
Who preached a sermon at the
Council of Constance in which he pointed out the superiority of the council
over the entire church?
What pope, elected by the
Council of Constance, rejected the superiority of the council over the pope?
What is a Uniate
church?