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Reform Vocab
Reformation Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 95 Thesis | Martin Luther’s written protests against the Catholic Church in the 1500’s that he nailed to the church door. |
| Lutherans | followers of Martin Luther’s teachings |
| excommunicated | kicked out |
| reaffirmed | say again |
| vernacular | languages |
| Index | a list of books the Catholic Church published that good Catholics were not supposed to read. |
| Council of Trent | a meeting set up in 1545 by Pope Paul III designed for bishops and cardinals to review all the teachings of the Catholic Church. |
| Calvinists | believed that God had already chosen a group, the elect, for heaven. |
| Protestantism | the faith of the Protestants |
| finance | pay for |
| indulgence | selling forgiveness from sins |
| Protestant Reformation | a revolt against the Catholic Church started by Martin Luther in the 1500’s |
| heretics | nonbelievers |
| Catholic Reformation | the Catholic Church defending itself against the Protestant movement |
| Jesuits | priests of the Society of Jesus whose main purpose was stopping converts to Protestantism |
| Protestants | those who revolted against the Catholic practices. |
| Protestants | those who revolted against the Catholic practices. |