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Jerome Savonarola (1452 - 1498): Burned at Martin Luther (1483 - 1546): One of the The “Solas” of the Reformation
Protestant Reformer in the first printed Greek New Testament in 1516.
the stake for his “meddling” by pope Alexan- most influential reformers of church Sola Scriptura Sola Gratia
Northern Switzerland. Wrote the “Diatribe Concerning Free
der Borgia, this Italian Dominican monk did not history. His most famous speech was Scripture Alone Grace Alone
Invited as a preacher in Will” (1524) against Martin Luther’s conceptions
debate doctrinal matters (as Wycliffe and Huss given at the Diet in Worms where, when Sola Christus Sola Fide
Zurich in 1506. Died in of Total Depravity. Luther responded with
did) but attacked the evil lives asked to recant, he said, “My Christ Alone Faith Alone
battle at the hands of
and immorality within the church. invading Catholics during
conscience is captive to the Word of “The Bondage of the will” in 1525. Soli Deo Gloria
Glory to God Alone
God...I cannot, I will not recant.
a civil war while a chaplain
John Huss (1372 - 1415): The for the John Calvin (1509 - 1564): Greatest Reformer in Theodore Beza (1519 - 1605): French
Bohemian monk who was mar- protestant the history of the Protestant church. Wrote the
At noon on October 31st, 1517, Martin Luther Calvinist theologian. In 1548 he joined
tyred for his faith. He agreed army. “Institutes of the Christian
nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle John Calvin at Geneva and soon
to follow the pope’s teach- Religion” (1535) — the most became his intimate friend and chief
Church at Wittenberg. The following day was “All
ings, “so far as First printed book on Saints Day” when multitudes would have attended widely read Reformation aid. From 1549 to 1558 Beza was
they agree with the printing press: the document ever penned next to professor of Greek at
mass, and the Theses
the doctrine of Guttenberg Bible Luther’s ”Bondage of the Will.” Lausanne. In 1558 he
(1454).
would have hung there
Christ, but when He preached daily in Geneva became professor of
for the priests and
I see contrary I and, by God’s grace, trans- Greek at Geneva, and in
monks to read. This was
will not obey the formal beginning of formed the city into an educa- 1564 he succeeded
them, even tional capital for students. Calvin in the chair of
though you burn the Reformation.
theology at Geneva.
my body.”
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Reformation
Philip Melanchthon land— “Give me Scotland else I die.”
Lollards (“poor preachers”) a group of (1497 - 1560):
preachers he organized before his Appointed professor of Pope Leo X (reigned 1513 - 21): He expended
death, brought the Gospel to the Eng- Greek in Wittenberg in papal revenues on art, letters and music.
lish countryside with this new Bible in
hand. Wycliffe is rightly known as the
“Morning Star of the Reformation.”
1518 (at 21 years of age). He came into
contact with Martin Luther and became a
co-worker for Gospel Reformation.
Under him the Italian Renaissance flourished immensely. How-
ever, to continue indulgences, he issued a papal bull against
Martin Luther condemning him as a heretic — ”The Wild Boar.”
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