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3.3 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Henry V11 | Separated the church of England from the catholic church, leading, leading to the formation of Anglicanism |
| Counter Reformation | to fight the protestant attacks. A three-pronged strategy yielded such gains for the church that it remains the largest Christian denomination in the world. |
| Martin Luther | A monk in Wittenberg, a German city in the Holy Roman Empire concluded that several traditional church practices violated biblical teachings. |
| Predestined | Those who already are destined to go to home |
| Indulgences | which granted a person absolution from the punishments for sin. |
| inquisition | which had been established in the late 12th century to punish nonbelievers of catholic church. |
| 95 theses | Martin Luther nailed this to the church doors, all his complaints with the catholic church. |
| Protestant Reformation | 16th Century religious and Political upheaval that splintered western Christianity, challenging the authority of the pope and the roman catholic church. |
| Simony | The selling of church offices |
| Jesuits | or the society of Jesus founded by Ignatius of loyal took missionary activity throughout the Spanish empire |
| John Calvin | French theologian, broke with the catholic church around 1530 |
| Anglican Church | one that would be free of control by the pope in Rome |
| Holy Synod | Composed of clergyman overseas by a secular official who answered to the tsar |
| Council of Trent | corrected some of the worst church's abuses and concentrated on reaffirming the rituals such as marriage and other sacraments improving the education of priests |
| Elect | predestined to go to heaven, ran the community, which was based on plain living, simple church buildings, and governance by the elders of the church . |