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APWH 3.3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Martin Luther | a German monk who became one o the most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Church. in 1517, he wrote 95 Theses or statements of belief attacking the church practices |
| Indulgences (contributed to Protestant Reformation) | In the Catholic Church: the remission punishment for ones sins. Such as for a sin that has already been forgiven by God but which still carries with it some kind of punishment. The church would sell certificates that would get a person out of purgatory. |
| Simony | the buying and selling of church offices |
| 95 Theses | it was nailed to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517 and is widely seen as being the Protestant Reformation. It contained Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church |
| John Calvin | Religious reformer who believed in predestination and a strict sense of morality for society |
| The Elect | In Calvinist doctrine, those who have been chosen by God for salvation |
| Puritans | Protestant group who wanted to purify the Church of England of Catholic remnants |
| Protestant Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches |
| Anglicanism | form of Protestantism set up in England after 1534; establish by Henry VIII with himself as head, at least in part to obtain a divorce from his first wife; became increasingly Protestant following Henry's death; free from the Pope's control |
| Henry VIII | (1491-1547) King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism, Henry established the Church of England in 1532 |
| Holy Synod | the replacement Peter the Great created for the office of Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was a "bureaucracy of laymen under his supervision" |
| Counter-Reformation | the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected) |
| Inquisition | a Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy-especially the one active in Spain during the 1400s |
| Council of Trent | Reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings, forbade the sale of indulgences |
| Jesuits | also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism |
| Peace of Augsburg | 1555 agreement declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler |
| Edict of Nantes | document that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots |
| Thirty Years War | Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire, ends with peace of Westphalia (-1648), a series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a battle between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's |
| Shari'ah | a law code drawn up by Muslim scholars after Muhammad's death; it provided believers with a set of practical laws to regulate their daily lives |
| Empiricism | the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on the collection of data should back up a hypothesis (scientific method) |
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