I.—SEVENTY-FIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON “SHORT HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION.”
1. Q. What is the Reformation? A. It is that great religious and intellectual revolution which marks the boundary line between the Middle Ages and the Modern Period.
2. Q. What was the first aim of the reformers, and which proved a total failure? A. The purification of the church within itself, and by its own servants.
3. Q. What was the next step, and one which succeeded? A. To withdraw from the fold, and establish an independent confession, and a separate ecclesiastical structure.
4. Q. Who planted the first seeds of Protestantism in France? A. The Paris reformers.
5. Q. Who were three prominent Paris reformers? A. D’Ailly, Gerson, and Clémanges.
6. Q. What was the most obvious cause of the failure of the Paris theologians? A. They never withdrew from the Roman Catholic Church, or took steps to establish a separate ecclesiastical organization.
7. Q. How did the Mystics of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries arise? A. As a spiritual reaction against the supremacy of the scholastic philosophy.
8. Q. What was the central scene and native country of the most notable reformatory Mystics? A. Germany.