The Answers
1. The Renaissance. People began to question and change their world.
2. The Guttenberg Bible.
3. The bible (in Latin) was now available to the general
population. If a person could afford one, (and
could read) they could interpret scriptures without help.
4. Martin Luther nailed a list of 95 theses to the church door.
These challenged the Catholic Church to make significant changes.
5. The Reformation.
6., Left the Catholic Church and started the Church of England,
legalizing divorce.
7. The King James Bible, an English translation.
8. King James I, who died the next year. Charles I followed him and
ruled as an absolute monarch, right up till he was beheaded in 1649.
9. He was a weaver. They were a fairly well off family.
10. Drayton in the Clay, a town with a history of questioning
religious authority. Anthony Nutter had served for 20 years in the
church, until 1634, and he believed that he could defy his bishop when
he could find no scriptural justification in the word of God.
11. He learned to read but probably not to write.
12. True. Since he couldn’t see it curve, it was obviously flat.
George did not have much classical schooling.
13. False. He was a serious and righteous child. If he were in
school today, his report card would probably say that he did not play
well with others.
14. He was a cobbler.
15. Leather breeches. Although he was wealthy enough to wear better
clothes, he identified more with the working class and was disdainful
of class distinctions. He was a stocky man of 5’7" or so. He
had a broad face and prominent cheekbones, and had unfashionably long
hair.
16. Equally good.
17. No. The first price given was the last. He had a reputation as
a fair trader.
18. In your own heart. "Own truth in the Spirit, and thou
shall understand truth in the letter, but we can never own truth in
the spirit til the truth in the spirit owns us."
19. "There is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to your
condition."
20. This formed the basis of his theology.
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