Martin Luther
Number of thesis Luther posted on the Wittenberg Castle.
95
Belief that God has determined in advanced who will be saved and who will be damned.
Predestination
A release from all or part of punishment for sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory after death.
Indulgence
Elector of Wittenberg, who kept Luther safe from the Holy Roman Empire
Frederick III (The Wise)
Roman Catholic English queen who executed 300 protestants for heresy
Bloody Mary
Protestant denomination founded on Luther's teachings.
Lutheranism
King of England who founded the Anglican church.
Henry VIII
Group consigned to ghettos
The Jews
Series of conflicts in Germany where common people attempted to rise up against their lords.
The Peasants' War
This meeting took place over 18 years and reaffirmed traditional Catholic doctrine.
Council of Trent
Meeting where Martin Luther was tried before the Holy Roman Emperor.
Diet of Worms
Swiss leader killed in battle with Catholic forces.
Ulrich Zwingli
Denomination that preached nonviolence and separation of church and state and who were hated by both Protestants and Catholics
Anabaptist's
Treaty that allowed for states in Germany to legally be Catholic or Protestant.
Peace of Augsburg
Pope who oversaw many reforms in the Roman Catholic church.
Pope Paul III
Martin Luther believed that the only way to be saved was through this.
Salvation comes through faith alone
Protestant leader in Switzerland whose teaching focused heavily on the concept of predestination.
John Calvin
Writer of "In Praise of Folly"
Erasmus
King of France, who was the primary political rival of the Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I
Founder of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits
Ignatius of Loyola
The wife of Martin Luther, a former nun
Katharina von Boren
Arch Bishop of Canterbury, executed in 1556 for not converting to Catholicism
Thomas Cranmer
Catholic English official who was executed for not converting to Anglicanism.
Thomas More
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who attempted to have Martin Luther arrested.
Charles V
Spanish nun who promoted the reform of the Carmalite order.
Teresa of Avila