In 380, Emperor Theodosius makes Christianity the official religion of the________________.
What is the Roman Empire?
This was designed to examine and try people accused of heresy or dissent.
What is the Roman Inquisition?
These were missionaries who traveled to spread Catholicism and convert non-Catholics.
Who were The Society of Jesuits?
The recent invention of this helped spread awareness of their disapproval of the Church.
What is the printing press?
German monk and religious reformer who is credited for sparking the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
Who is Martin Luther?
Who is John Calvin?
During the Renaissance, this was the study of Greek and Roman language and literature to educate one’s self and improve one’s reasoning
What is Humanism?
A 16th-century religious, political, intellectual, and cultural revolution that sought to change or remake the Catholic Church.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The burning of a 16th-century Anneken Hendriks who was charged with this.
What is heresy?
Many people did not understand the speeches given by priests or the sections of the Bible that they read at church services because they were in this language.
What is Latin?
These were pieces of paper issued by the Catholic Church that forgave sins. By purchasing these a person could reduce the amount of time their soul had to spend in a place called purgatory before being admitted into heaven.
What are indulgences?
As the Church fought for political power and economic strength, ordinary people believed the Church was becoming too___________, or “worldy” and non-religious
What is secular?
Hiding out at the Wartburg Castle in Germany, in seclusion, Martin Luther translated the New Testament into the German language to give ordinary people the opportunity to read the Bible without having to rely on the Church’s__________________.
What is interpretation?
Humanism led people to question this.
What is Church authority?
This means you are not allowed to participate in the sacraments and services of the Catholic Church, which according to the Church, would condemn your soul to hell when you died.
What is excommunication?
The spread of Martin Luther's ideas and the start of his Lutheran Church did this to the Roman Catholic Church into new sects of Christianity.
What is fractured?
At a meeting with Cardinal Thomas Cajetan in Augsburg, Martin Luther was ordered to_________his 95 Theses by the authority of the pope.
What is recant?
Who is Martin Luther?
The Church calls him a heretic, or a disbeliever who holds views that go against the Church. The Church burns him at the stake for his views.
Who was Jan Hus?
In response to this opposition, the Catholic Church started this; a movement to force allegiance to the Catholic Church.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
During the_______________, Jesuit missionaries traveled throughout Europe and won back many of the Europeans who had converted to Protestantism
What is the Counter Reformation?
Politically and religiously, Europe grew less unified as more diverse religious thoughts developed and new Church____________________formed.
What are denominations?
In 1545, Pope Paul III called this meeting of the leaders of the Catholic Church. It was an emergency conference to fight against the new ideas spread by the Protestant Reformation
What is the Council of Trent?
Many Europeans decided to place their faith in this, rather than accepting whatever authorities said was true.
What is human reason?
This, according to Catholics at the time, is a place where souls that are not destined to go to hell have to wait a certain amount of time before they were let into heaven.
What is Purgatory?