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History the GREEKZ
Term | Definition |
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Counter (Catholic) Reformation – | The response of the Catholic church to reform itself in response to the Protestant Reformation |
heresy – | belief or opinion that goes against the church. |
Council of Trent – | A series of meetings of Catholic church officials that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent, Italy. The council decided how to respond to the Protestant Reformation and created a plan to do so. |
Index of Forbidden Books – | hundreds of books that were banned by the Catholic Church because they were considered heretical |
Roman Inquisition - | A court established by the Roman Catholic Church in the thirteenth century to try cases of heresy and other offenses against the church. Those convicted could be handed over to the civil authorities for punishment, including execution. |
excavated | dug out of the earth |
ostracized | excluded |
supernatural | a force beyond scientific understanding |
sickle | a farming tool with a semicircular blade |
patron | financial support for people |
humanism | when people began to enjoy life instead of dedicating it all to religion |
renaissance | the rebirth of culture |
Northern renaissance | when art and breaking away from the church began |
Johannes Gutenberg | invented the movable printing press which made it easier to print books and educated more people |
Protestant reformation | 16th century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe. |
Indulgence | a grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due to the sins after absolution. |
95 theses | the debate over the indulgence, and other issues with the church |
Protestantism | the faith practice and church order of the Protestant churches |
predestination | the divine foreordaining of all that will happen especially with regard to the salvation |
"The elect" | to hold a public officer |
Jesuit | a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work. |
Niccolo Machiavelli | was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. |