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BMMS 7history ch14
BMMS 7 history chapter 14 (Reformation)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clement V | pope who moved the center of the Catholic Church from Rome, Italy, to Avignon, France |
| Martin Luther | German monk who led a fight with the Catholic Church |
| Reformation | the term used to describe the movement of opposition against the Catholic Church in the 16th century |
| John Wycliffe | English philosopher and priest who questioned the pope's right to levy taxes and appoint Church officials without the king's approval |
| Protestants | name for Christians who broke with the Catholic Church during and after the 16th century |
| indulgence | the relaxation of earthly penalty for sin; a pardon for sin |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Dutch priest and scholar who criticized both Church officials and the people calling for reform |
| Martin V | pope, elected in 1417, who began healing the church |
| Great Schism | the split that divided the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417 |
| Ninety-Five Theses | document listing Luther's disputes with the Church, including the selling of indulgences |
| John Calvin | a French reformer who believed in the idea of predestination |
| predestination | the belief that people are chosen for salvation (heaven or hell)before they are born |
| Jesuits | a religious order established in the 1530s, also known as the Society of Jesus |
| Ignatius of Loyola | the founder of the Jesuits |
| Inquisition | a court that investigated people who wandered from Catholicism |
| missionaries | Christian groups who go to foreign countries to do religious work |
| convert | to adopt a new religion |
| mendicant | type of religious order that owned nothing and lived by begging |
| Dominican | religious order that was among the first to join the Spanish and Portuguese voyages to the Americas |
| Catholicism | religion that spread into the Americas primarily through Spanish explorers |
| Peace of Westphalia | the 1648 agreement that recognized the permanent division of Western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations |
| mercantile | term that describes the type of economies that allowed Protestant countries to gain wealth |
| presbytery | a body of leaders and ministers that shared in the governing of certain churches |
| covenant | Puritan agreement with God through which they believed they could be saved |
| federalism | the sharing of power between an organization, such as a Church or government, and its members |