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He was an ordained priest who nailed his 95 theses to the door to the door of Wittenberg's Castle church in 1517.
Who was Martin Luther?
A system of religious beliefs.
What is theology?
Galileo was born in this country.
What is Italy?
An imaginary straight line around which a spinning object rotates.
What is axis?
Both Protestants and Catholics tried to control the publication of certain books. This is the list of books forbidden by the Catholic Church.
What is the Index of Forbidden Books?
This man created the printing press that would change the way people communicated.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
The idea that a person's actions and fate are decided ahead of time by God.
What is predestination?
Martin Luther was from this country.
What is Germany (known as Saxony during his time)?
Ideas that go against the main teachers of a religion.
What is heresy?
This Council helped rid the Catholic church of serious abuses.
What is the Council of Trent?
He believed that the Earth moved around the sun and the sun remained still. His diagrams and calculations were approved by the pope.
Who is Copernicus?
Being save from the effects of sin.
What is salvation?
Henry the Vlll was the King of this country.
What is England?
A journey undertaken for religious purpose.
What is pilgrimage?
What is an indulgence?
He moved from France to Switzerland and started a religious movement that believed in predestination and restricted activities such as gambling, singing, and dancing.
Who is John Calvin?
A sense or belief a person has that a certain action is right or wrong.
What is conscience?
Ignatius of Loyola was from this country.
What is Spain?
To publicly take back something you have said or written.
What is recant?
Ignatius of Loyola was the first elected leader of this group that he helped establish in 1540.
Who are the Jesuits?
He started a religious movement that removed the organ from his church and banned the singing of hymns and later died after he joined the Zurich (Swiss Confederation) army as a chaplain.
Who is Ulrich Zwingli?
According to Roman Catholicism this is a temporary place here the souls of the sea suffer in order to do penance for sins before going to heaven.
What is purgatory?
Copernicus was from this country.
What is Poland?
The act of showing honor or deep love or respect.
What is veneration?
This is the name of the church Henry Vlll created after he was excommunicated from the Church for divorcing his first wife Catherine of Aragon and marrying his second wife Anne Boleyn.
What is The Church of England?