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2023 Unit #2 Vocab
WH2 - Reformation #2
Term | Definition |
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Indulgences | pardon that released the buyer from doing penance set by the Church |
Predestination | doctrine that God has known since the beginning of time who will be "saved" |
Salvation | saving of a person from sin or its consequences |
Usury | lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
Edict of Nantes | declaration of religious toleration by France in 1598 |
Huguenot | in the 1500s and 1600s, a French Protestant who was a follower of Calvinism |
Inquisition | Roman Catholic trial for the examination and punishment of wrongs |
Jesuits | members of the Society of Jesus, religious order whose mission is to spread the word of the Church |
Vernacular | works of literature that are published in regional languages rather than classical languages like Latin or Greek |
Martin Luther | German reformer that believed that salvation was based on faith alone, and that the bible was the ultimate religious authority |
John Calvin | Swiss reformer that believed in predestination and that your moral life revealed whether you were "saved" or not |
Henry VIII (Eighth) | English king that broke with the Catholic Church because he wanted to divorce his wife; seized church lands & made himself “defender of the faith” |
Elizabeth I | English monarch that permanently established England as a Protestant nation. Defeated the Spanish Armada |
Cardinal Richelieu | Religious leader that changed the Thirty Year’s War from a religious to political war |
Charles V | Holy Roman Emperor that opposed Martin Luther’s Reformation |
Papal Authority | the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that the pope has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church |
Catholic | member of the Roman Catholic Church (non-Protestant Christian) |
Protestant | a member of any Christian Church denomination that denies the authority of the Pope & affirms the Reformation |
Dissenter | one who holds or expresses opinions that are opposed to the official view or opinion |
Appropriate | to take possession of |
Colonialism | the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people. |
Theology | study of divine things or religious truth |
Holy Roman Empire | an empire consisting primarily of a loose confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806 |
Society of Jesus | religious order of the Jesuits founded by Ignatius Loyola |