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Who is Johann Von Staupitz?
Luther's mentor he met at Wittenberg.
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What is the collection at Wittenberg?
Collection of relics that could reduce purgatorial residence by up to 1,902,202 years and 270 days.
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What is becoming a lawyer and making good money to support them in their old age?
The plans Luther’s parents had for him.
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What is fire and straw?
Metaphor Luther used to describe a priest and a housekeeper.
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What is “a trial sent by God to test man or an assault by the Devil to destroy man - all the doubt, turmoil, pang tremor, panic, despair, desolation and desperation which invade the spirit of man?”
The definition of "Anfechtung."
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What is the University of Leipzig?
University Frederick the Wise sought to rival when he established the U of W.
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What is the pope’s ‘jurisdiction’ over purgatory?
Luther’s first grievance with indulgences.
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What are Hans & Margaretta?
Luther’s parents’ names.
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What is “You are angry with God”?
Sentence Luther was told when he confessed the sins of his entire life.
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What is Junker George, a knight?
Luther’s undercover name and title while at the Wartburg castle.
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What is “thou shalt not make any graven images (2nd Commandment).”
Commandment used to justify violence during the post-Worms riot.
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What is remission of sins?
Highest earthly benefit indulgences could provide.
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What is ‘what Luther thinks is from God might be from the devil’?
A statement from Padre Luther that showed Martin Luther a major problem with his faith.
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What is “to change your mind”?
Correct translation of “penitentiam agite” from Matthew 4:17 in the Vulgate.
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What is traveling with two horses and a carriage and two illegitimate children? Poor pretzel!
All of the charges against Tetzel as the scapegoat.
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What is the giving of wives to monks?
Reform that caused Luther to exclaim, “They won’t give one to me!”
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What is the coffers of the Fuggers?
Place in Germany into which the indulgence of St. Peter ended up.
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What are ten children (6 born, 4 adopted)?
The number of children Martin and Katie Luther brought up in their home.
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What are the self proclaimed prophets of Zwickau?
The group that claimed they did not need the Word of God for they “relied on the Spirit.”
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Who is the Prophet Elijah?
OT prophet Luther is compared to when struggling at the Wartburg Castle.
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What is (1) wine given in mass, (2) administration of the sacrament by priest in plain clothes, (3) meat eaten on fast days?
Three major areas of change of the liturgy in Wittenberg while Luther was in hiding.
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What is the Cum Postquam, a bull from Pope Leo X?
The declaration in which it was said that indulgences diminish the temporal penalties of sin on earth and in purgatory.
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What is the teaching that the father is like the magistrate, and the family is like the state, and that God uses both roles to accomplish good?
Luther’s teaching on politics in the family, and vocations in the family.
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What are confirmation, marriage, ordination, penance, extreme unction, Lord’s supper, baptism? What are the last two?
The seven sacraments of the medieval catholic church, and the two Luther reduced them to.
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What is (1) the Church of their day was too legalistic, (2) indulgences mean nothing without turning from sin, (3) people get so focused on imitating a saint that they forget the virtues to imitate?
Three points Luther and Erasmus agreed on.
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