Vocabulary
This is the religious reform movement that divided western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant groups.
What is the reformation?
This German monk is credited with starting the Protestant Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther?
This phrase refers to the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Counter-Reformation.
This was the first Protestant faith.
What is Lutheranism?
This was the Christian humanist who wrote Utopia and was executed for opposing Henry VIII's creation of the Church of England.
Who was Sir Thomas More?
This was a document, sold by the church that forgave a person of their sin.
What was an indulgence?
This Christian humanist believed Christianity should show people how to live a good life on a daily basis rather than focusing on salvation.
Who was Erasmus?
What is the selling of indulgences?
Martin Luther believed this was the only thing necessary for salvation which went against the teaching of the Catholic Church.
What is faith? Or, “justification by faith alone”.
This is the order of Catholic nuns known for taking a vow of complete poverty. They are associated with Teresa of Avila who created a small convent in 1562.
Who are the Carmelites?
This is what the church believed happened to someone when they went to heaven.
What is salvation, or what is they're saved?
This reformer is associated with the idea of predestination.
Who was John Calvin?
This Catholic religious order was founded by Spanish nobleman Ignatius Loyola and used education to spread their message.
Who are the Jesuits, also known as the Society of Jesus?
How did the English Protestant Reformation differ from other reform movements?
The English reformation was political rather than ideological in nature.
This document declared Martin Luther an outlaw, required his works burned, and called for his capture and delivery to the Holy Roman Emperor.
What was the Edict of Worms?
This was the intellectual movement that combined classical learning of Ancient Greece and Rome with the goal of reforming the Catholic Church.
What was Christian humanism?
This reformer created the Church of England when the pope refused to grant him an annulment so he could remarry in the hopes of having a male heir.
Who was King Henry VIII?
This group of Catholic reformers met in response to the Protestant Reformation and decided what the official practices and beliefs of the Church would be going forward.
What was the Council of Trent?
This is the belief that God decides in advance who would be saved and who would be damned.
What is predestination?
This treaty ended the religious warfare in Germany, gave Lutherans and Catholics the same legal rights, and allowed German rulers to decided which version of Christianity would exist in their territory.
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
This word means a person has been kicked out of membership in the church.
What is excommunication?
This Swiss reformer was known for simplifying church services and decorations. He died in battle between Catholic and Protestant troops in 1531.
Who was Ulrich Zwingli?
He was the pope who led the Counter-Reformation.
Who was Pope Paul III?
This group was viewed as dangerous radicals for their belief in the complete separation of church and state, adult baptism, and spiritual equality.
Who were the Anabaptists?
He was a prominent Anabaptist, overseeing a sanctuary in Munster, Germany in the 1530s.
Who was John of Leiden?