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Reformation
Vocabulary GCA WHII
Term | Definition | Time Period |
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Reformation | competition in religious thought led to this split in the Christian Church | Reformation |
Protestant Reformation | split between Protestants and Catholics | Reformation |
Roman Catholic Church | the only Christian denomination up to 1500AD; led by the Pope in Rome | Reformation |
dissent | disagreement | Reformation |
Jan Huss | early dissenter; refused to recant his views and was burned as a heretic | Reformation |
recant | to take back | Reformation |
heretic | someone against the Church | Reformation |
John Wycliffe | early dissenter; criticized monks; excommunication, and the Catholic mass | Reformation |
usury | charging interest for loans | Reformation |
vernacular | local language | Reformation |
indulgences | pardons given for sins; usually a payment, but can be prayers, doing acts of devotion, attending places of worship, or going on pilgrimage | Reformation |
Martin Luther | he believed in justification by faith alone, Bible as ultimate authority, all humans are equal before God, mass and Bible should be in vernacular; wrote 95 Theses | Reformation |
Wittenberg, Germany | Church in Germany where Luther nailed the 95 Theses | Reformation |
95 Theses | Martin Luther's list of complaints against the Catholic Church | Reformation |
Printing Press | invention of movable type; created by Gutenberg; spread Reformation ideas all over Europe | Reformation |
Thirty Years’ War | military and religious war in Germany between Protestants and Catholics; | Reformation |
John Calvin | he believed in predestination, Protestant Work Ethic, salvation by faith, and Bible and mass in the vernacular | Reformation |
Protestantism | Christian denomination started by Martin Luther against the Catholic Church | Reformation |
Calvinism | Christian denomination started by John Calvin | Reformation |
predestination | God already knows whether or not a person deserves eternal life. | Reformation |
Huguenots | French Calvinists | Reformation |
Puritans | English Calvinists; Puritans | Reformation |
Justification by faith | salvation through faith alone | Reformation |
Henry VIII | English king who needed a male heir, split from the Catholic Church to divorce his wife; created Anglican Church; seized church lands | Reformation |
Presbyterians | Scottish Calvinists | Reformation |
Act of Supremacy | with this, Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church of England (Anglican) and grants himself a divorce | Reformation |
Church of England | Church created by Henry VIII; another name for the Anglican Church | Reformation |
Anglican Church | Church created by Henry VIII; another name for the Church of England | Reformation |
Appropriate | to seize | Reformation |
Elizabeth I | she nationalized the Anglican church; kept religious harmony in England, defeated the Spanish Armada, and never married | Reformation |
colonial | Elizabeth I created these overseas to expand the English empire | Reformation |
Spanish Armada | Spanish naval fleet | Reformation |
papal | the Pope | Reformation |
capitalism | economy where profit is encouraged | Reformation |
Edict of Nantes | Henry IV granted Protestant Huguenots freedom of worship | Reformation |
Council of Trent | A series of Catholic meetings to reaffirm faith, and counter trends towards Protestantism | Reformation |
Counter Reformation | Attempt by the Catholic church to reassert its authority through the Jesuits and Inquisition | Reformation |
The Jesuits | group founded by Ignatius of Loyola to spread catholic doctrine around the worlds; they preached to the poor, started schools, and universities | Reformation |
Ignatius of Loyola | founder of the Jesuits | Reformation |
Inquisition | Catholic effort to reinforce Catholic doctrine and beliefs and censor humanists, Protestants, and some scientific writers and thinkers | Reformation |
secularism | non-religious | Reformation |
individualism | to focus on the individual | Reformation |