Honors World History
The Protestant Reformation
Ch 14 Global Encounters and Religious Reforms
Mr. Soff
Pages 426-434
1. What were probably the most important benefits of mechanical printing?
2. Erasmus’ famous works the Handbook of the Militant Christian (1503) and The Praise of Folly (1509) had some common
themes. What were they and what did Erasmus feel were “true” Christian virtues?
3. Sir Thomas More’s most famous work was Utopia (1516). Briefly describe what Utopia was like, including some of its
“oddities.” Does any part of this jive with your notion of a Utopia?
4. Why did Martin Luther experience his “religious crisis”?
5. How, as a man of religion, did Luther find inner peace?
6. Who were the Evangelicals and what did they represent?
7. Luther started out as “loyal opposition” to current Church doctrine. But in 1520 he published three works which infuriated the
Church (which now referred to this as the “Luther Affair”). Describe the thesis of each and the language it was written in:
A. To the Nobility of the German Nation: (August 1520)
B. On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church: (October 1520)
C. Freedom of a Christian: (November 1520)
8. Describe John Calvin’s idea of predestination.
9. What was Henry VIII’s (England) “great matter” and how did it lead to a break with the Catholic Church?
10. Which English monarch finally put Protestantism on a firm footing in Britain?