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Chapter 3: Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Perscute | to cause a person to suffer because of their beliefs |
Monastery | a community of monks |
Monk | a man who has taken a solemn vow to devote his life to prayer |
Excommunicate | to formally deprive a person of membership in a church |
Sacrament | a solemn rite of Christian Churches |
Pilgrimage | a journey to a holy site |
Relic | a holy object touched by a saint or a holy person |
Convent | a community of nuns... also called a nunnery |
Nun | a woman who has taken a solemn vow to devote her life to prayer and service to the Church |
Rhetoric | the study of persuasive writing and speaking |
Theology | the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking |
Natural Law | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world to devote their life to their faith |
Monasticism | withdraw from the rest of the world to devote their life to their faith |
Religious Order | the brotherhood or sisterhood of monks, nuns, or friars |
Friar | a member of a certain religious order devoted to teaching and works of charity |
Clergy | the body of people, such as priest, who perform the sacred functions of a church |