Video Viewing Guide on Wycliffe and Tyndale.doc

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The Battle for the Bible: Viewer’s Guide

Please fill these questions out as you watch the video.

1. How many Protestants are there in the United States?

 

 

2. How many Protestant churches are there in the United States?

 

 

3. How many denominations are there in the United States?

 

 

4. Who were the three men who gave their lives so that the Bible could be in English?

 

 

 

5. Why did the English authorities not want the Bible to be in the hands of people?

 

 

 

 

6. When did the first English translation appear?

 

 

7. What language was spoken by the priests in the churches in the 1300s?

 

 

8. What happened in the 1370s?

 

 

 

9. What did Wycliffe claim was the source of authority in Christianity?

 

 

10. What were followers of John Wycliffe called?

 

 

11. How long did it take to copy the Wycliffe Bible?
12. What did Wycliffe’s Bible encourage people to do?

 

 

13. When did Wycliffe die?

 

 

14. What did the English government do in 1407?

 

 

 

15. After 1407, if you owned an English Bible, what were you charged of and what was your punishment?

 

 

16. In 1415, what did the church council do?

 

 

17. In 1428, what did they do?

 

 

18. In what languages was William Tyndale fluent?

 

 

 

19. Why did Tyndale hate the Church’s ban on the English Bible?

 

 

 

20. What did Martin Luther believe?

 

 

 

21. What did Luther begin?

 

 

22. What was the basic struggle about in the reformation?

 

 

23. What did the reformers believe about salvation?

 

 

24. What did the church at the time believe? (2 things)

 

 

 

25. What were Luther’s main beliefs? (2 things)

 

 

 

26. When did Luther publish the German Bible?

 

 

27. What did Tyndale do in 1524?  Why?

 

 

 

28. What three texts did Tyndale use to help him translate into English?

 

 

 

29. A note…the Greek word translated “charity,” but for Tyndale, “love” is agape—a common word for love.  Tyndale was right.

 

30. When Tyndale was first ready to publish, what happened?

 

 

 

31. When was the Tyndale New Testament printed?

 

 

32. Why was the Bible small?

 

33. How did the Catholic church react to the Tyndale New Testament?
34. 
    Where did Tyndale end up running to?

 

 

35. How were the Tyndale Bibles smuggled into England?

 

 

36. How was Tyndale captured?

 

 

37. What was Tyndale’s last words?

 

 

38. How was Tyndale martyred?

 

 

39. What happened several months after Tyndale’s death?

 

 

40. Why did Henry VIII create the Church of England?

 

 

41. What did Archbishop Cranmer do with the English Bibles?

 

 

 

42. What was the message of the Reformation?

 

 

 

43. What did Queen Mary do?

 

 

44. How was Cranmer martyred?

 

 

45. What did the Puritans want?

 

 

46. Which English Bible did they favor?

 

 

47. What was the agreement between the Puritans and the English Bishops?

 

 

 

48. What Bible came out of that agreement?

 

 

49. Who started the Great Awakening?