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ReformationVocab
Jasmine Romo
Term | Definition |
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Respond | To react to something that has been said or done. |
Publication | Book or other printed work. |
Error | Something incorrect or incorrectly done. |
Minor | Small and not very important or serious. |
Parliament | Group of people who make up a country 's laws. |
Finance | To provide a large amount of money to pay for something. |
Contrast | Difference between people, ideas, or situations that are being compared. |
Individual | Considered separately from other people of things in the same group |
Reformation | A religious movement that began in the 1500's to reform the Catholic Church. |
Martin Luther | He was a German Monk born in 1483. When he was a young man he was caught in a powerful thunderstorm and vowed if he were to survive he would become a monk. |
Indulgence | Pardons of Sins. |
John Calvin | A french scholar, he was born in France 1509, a generation after Luther. He published "The Institutes of Christian Religion". |
Predestination | The idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation. |
Theocracy | A government ruled by religious leaders. |
William Tyndale | He made a English translation of the New Testament of the Bible. He wad tried for heresy and burned at the stake. |
Counter-Reformation | The movement to strengthen the teachings and structure of the Catholic Church. |
Jesuits | The most influential of the new religious orders. |
Ignatius Loyola | He was born in northern Spain 1491. When he was young he entered the military service and was seriously injured. He vowed to live a religious life. |
Council of Trent | Sought ways to revive the moral authority of the Catholic Church and to stop the spread of Protestantism. |
Henry VIII | He was the king of England, he wrote a book criticizing Luther's ideas. He married Anne Boleyn without the churches approval. |
Annulment | Is an official action ending a marriage. |
Act of Supremacy | It made the king leader of the Church of England. |
Henry IV | Soon after the civil war ended Henry assumed to the throne. In 1598, he was proclaimed the Edict of Nantes. |
Edict | Is an official public order made by a king or another authority. |
Philip II | He was the Catholic ruler of Spain. He used the Inquisition against Protestants. He financed the troops to fight in Europe against the Protestants. |
Armada | Fleet of Ships. |
Absolute Monarchy | A ruler has complete power over the government and its subjects. |
Divine Right of Kings | A theory in which states that a king's right to rule comes directly from god. |
Louis XIV | He was Frances king, ruling from 1643 to 1715. He Installed troops in major towns to keep order. |
Constitutional Monarchy | Is a form of government in which a king's or queen's power is limited by a constitution. |
Federalism | A form of government in which power is shared between local and national levels. |