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The Reformation
Question | Answer |
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The crime of paying for sacraments and holy offices | Simony |
Practi9ce of giving jobs to relatives without regard to merit | Nepotism |
The practice of religious officials holding more than one office | Pluralism |
Foll or partial remission of temporal punishment for sins which have already been forgiven granted by the church | Indulgences |
Group founded in Holland to devote themselves both to education based on classical learning and to inculcating among themselves a deep spiritual relationship with Christ and a love of their fellow human beings | Brethren of the Common Life |
Follower of the Brethren of the Common Life who wrote "The Imitation of Christ." | Thomas à Kempis |
Pope when the Reformation began who excommunicated Martin Luther | Pope Leo X |
Dominican preacher who was sent into Germany to sell indulgences to raise money to fund the building of St. Peter's Basilica | Johann Tetzel |
Luther's challenge to other scholars to debate the issue of indulgences that he posted on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg | The Ninety-five Theses |
Holy Roman Emperor who ordered Luther to appear at the Diet of the Holy ROman Empire and who declared Luther an outlaw | Charles V |
Ruler of Saxony who provided Luther with refuge at his Wartburg castle | Elector Frederick the Wise |
Meeting before which Luther was called to demand that he recant in 1521 | Diet of Worms |
Only two sacraments which Luther recognized that had been established by Jesus Christ | Baptism and HOly Communion |
Revolt against the land owners in 1524-1525 which sought to abolish serfdom and the manorial system | Peasant revolts |
Luther's response to the Peasant revolts | Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of the Peasants |
The three main tenets of Lutheranism | Sola scriptura, Sola fide, Sola gratia |
Religious and military alliance directed against the Catholic Habsburgs | Schmalkaldic League |
Longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who presided over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political, and economic power; his ambitions were checked at the Siege of Vienna | Suleiman the Magnificent |
Statement of Luther's faith that Luther presented before Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg | Confession of Augsburg |
Colleague of Martin Luther's who wrote the Confession of Augsburg | Philipp Melanchthon |
After the war of the Schmalkaldic League, this compromise agreement established the principle by which Germany would be governed until the Peace of Westphalia; only recognized Roman Catholicism or Lutheranism | Peace of Augsburg |
Principle that the ruler's religion would be the religion of the region; established by the Peace of Augsburg | cuius regio, eius religio |
Early leader of the Swiss Reformation in Zurich; in contrast to Luther, he believed that baptism and holy communion were ceremonies rather than true sacraments; killed by Catholic forces | Ulrich Zwingli |
Leader of the Reformation in Geneva who stressed doctrine of salvation by election; he practiced a strict theocracy with religious leaders dominating the city's government | John Calvin |
Calvin's most famous work that set forth his religious doctrine | The Institutes of Christian Religion |
The French Calvinists | Huguenots |
Disciple of Calvin who brought faith to Scotland | John Knox |
Scottish Calvinists | Presbyterians |
King who took England out of the Catholic church and founded the Anglican church | Henry VIII |
Followers of John Wycliffe | Lollards |
Englishman who was a leading figure of the Protestant Reformation; first to translate parts of the Bible into English; burned at the stake | William Tyndale |
Wife whom Henry VIII sought to divorce | Catherine of Aragon |
Woman whom Henry VIII wanted to marry and for whom he left the Catholic church | Anne Boleyn |
Cardinal who was Henry's lord chancellor who was unsuccessful in gaining a divorce for Henry VIII and so was dismissed | Thomas Wolsey |
New archbishop of Canterbury who granted Henry an annulment; wrote the Book of Common Prayer | Thomas Cranmer |
Law which declared the king, rather than the pope, to be the head of the English church | Act of Supremacy |
Parliament approved these to define the doctrine of the English Church; reaffirmed Catholic teaching and rejected Protestant beliefs | The Six Articles |
Former lord chancellor who refused to swear to support the Act of Supremacy | Thomas More |
Revolt that broke out in conservative northern England, but easily suppressed by the king | Pilgrimage of Grace |
Son of Henry Viii under whose reign the Six Articles were repealed and replaced with the Forty-two Articles of which reflected increasing Calvinist ideas | Edward VI |
Daughter of Henry VIII who attempted to restore Roman Catholicism in England; persecuted England's protestants | Mary I, Mary Tudor |
Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn who was the last Tudor to rule England; sought a religious settlement to satisfy the majority of her people | Elizabeth I |
Under Elizabeth, Parliament defined the teachings of Anglican Church; it was mostly Protestant but governed by bishops; emphasized both compromise and ambiguity in attempting to unite as many as possible; the church would be governed by bishops | Thirty-nine Articles |
English radical Protestants who opposed the Elizabethan Settlement because it wasn't sufficiently Protestant | Puritans |
Catholic cousin of Elizabeth about whom opposition to Elizabeth centered; she fled to England and was a prisoner for almost 20 years before being executed for conspiring against the queen | Mary Queen of Scots |
Attack by Philip II of Spain to attempt to overthrow Elizabeth and bring England back to Roman Catholicism | Spanish Armada |
Radical protestants who insisted that the only real Christians were those who had undergone a conversion experience and had then been baptized; most wanted the church to be entirely separate from the state | Anabaptists |
German Anabaptist who preached the overthrow of the existing political and social order; executed in 1525 after the German Peasants' Revolt | Thomas Münzer |
City where radical Anabaptists tried to establish a theocratic government that endorsed communal property and polygamy; recaptured by its Catholic bishop and the leaders were executed | Münster |
More moderate Anabaptist from the Netherlands who preached simplicity in religion and life; the Amish are an offshoot of his followers | Menno Simons |
Term used to refer specifically to reform the Catholic Church | Catholic Reformation |
Term used to refer to efforts by the Catholic Church to counter the spread of Protestants | Counter-Reformation |
Congregation of the Holy Office that used torture, secret witnesses, and the admission of hearsay and rumor to convict suspected heretics | Roman Inquisition |
Established to discourage the dissemination of heretical views | Index of Prohibited Books |
Assembly of Catholic religious leaders to define Roman Catholic doctrine and eliminate abuses in the church | Council of Trent |
New religious order established under the personal authority of the pope, to combat the spread of Protestantism as well as educating the young and spread to new areas to convert heathens | Society of Jesus or the Jesuits |
Founder of the Jesuits | St. Ignatius Loyola |
Most famous missionary of the Jesuits who traveled to Japan and India | St. Francis Xavier |
Order of nuns established in 1535 that was dedicated themselves to the education of girls | The Ursulines |
A Spanish mystic who organized a convent of Discaced Carmelites, cloistered nuns who lived in poverty and simplicity devoting their lives to prayer and contemplation | St. Theresa of Avila |