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| Popular presentation of Christian faith aimed at educating children. |
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| Statement of the main theological affirmations of a grouping within the Reformation aimed at an adult audience. |
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| Works of Systematic Theology |
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| This offered a systematic analysis and defense of Lutheran or Reformed theology. |
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| French Reformer who wrote "The Institutes of the Christian Religion", which would set out clearly the basic ideas of evangelical theology, justifying them on the basis of Scripture, defending them in the face of the Catholic church. |
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| a Swiss reformer who took an interest in Christian humanism to criticize the existing theology of the church, especially his belief in the memorial of Christ in the Eucharist. |
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| An intellectual movement linked with the European Renaissance to the heart of which lays a new interest in the cultural achievements of antiquity. |
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| A German Augustinian monk who developed the doctrine of justification by faith and wrote 95 theses in protest against the indulgences sold by the Catholic church. |
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| A view of god that recognizes the divine creatorship yet rejects the notion of a continuing divine involvement with the world. |
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| A belief that God's election of humanity was without reference to their foreseen merits or achievements. |
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| The reformers codified and consolidated a series and systematic presentation of Christian theology. |
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| Highly systematic statements of both Lutheran and Reformed theology. |
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| Catholic (Counter) Reformation |
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| The Roman Catholic church developed means of combating the Protestant Reformation. |
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| The written text of public service, especially of the Eucharist. |
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| English (Anglican) Reformation |
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| Shift of religious power in England replacing the papal authority with the King, creating a new National church. |
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| A movement of insistence that only those who have made a personal public profession of faith should be baptized. |
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| Swiss (Reformed) Reformation |
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| A series of attempts to reform the morals and worship of the church all to a more biblical pattern. |
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| To refer to the religious ideas of the Reformed churches. |
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| German (Lutheran) Reformation |
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| A Movement by Martin Luther concerned with the doctrine of justification by faith. |
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| Term used in literature to refer to the reforming factions. |
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| Term derived from the religious protests against the Catholic church. |
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| Term to refer to the multiple movements of reform to the church. |
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| To be exiled from the Catholic church. |
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| Belief that the bread and wine are physically transformed in the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. |
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| Belief that the bread and wine have an assimilated presence of Christ in, with, and through the Eucharist. |
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| Early heresy which taught that humans are able to merit their salvation by works rather than divine grace. |
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| Scripture and tradition were to be given equal weight in theological deliberations by ending corruption and abuse and by setting out main tenets of the Catholic church. |
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| A Puritan preacher who played a major role in the Great Awakening, and considered America's first great theologian. |
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| Catholic theologian who argued for the rationality of Catholic theology against Protestantism. |
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| Lutheran Orthodox theologian who used Aristotelian works of logic to treat topics topically rather than systematically. |
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| Calvinist writer who presented a rational coherent account of the main elements of Calvinist theology using Aristotelian logic. |
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| Theology about a transformed personal relationship with God called Mystical Theology. |
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| Anglican theologian who discovered a need for a "living faith" and the role of experience in the Christian life. |
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| A movement started by John Wesley who placed an emphasis on the experiential side of Christian faith. |
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| A term to describe the emphasis upon the importance of Christian doctrine for everyday Christian life. |
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| A version of Reformed Orthodoxy with an emphasis on the experiential and pastoral aspects of faith with significant developments in the New World. |
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