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Chapter 3
Part I: Landmarks: Periods, Themes, and Personalities of Christian Theology:
3. The Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods, ca.1500-ca.1750.

QUESTIONS
 
1.

What does the term 'Reformation' mean? [answer]

2.

Which reformer is especially associated with the doctrine of justification by faith alone? [answer]

3.

How important was humanism to the origins and development of the Reformation? [answer]

4.

Why did the reformers come to place such emphasis upon revising existing doctrines of the church? [answer]

5.

What factors led to the development of (a) confessionalism and (b) pietism? [answer]

6.

Why did post-Tridentine Roman Catholic writers (i.e. writers dating from after the Council of Trent) place such an emphasis on continuity with the early church? [answer]