2.9-2.10 vocab Flashcards
the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges
Simony
the practice of holding more than one office or church benefice at a time
pluralism
favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs
nepotism
the practice of regularly staying away from work or school without good reason
absenteeism
paying money to the church so that your past sins are forgiven or you are released from purgatory after death
sale of indulgences
Bishops casually enforced regulations regarding education of priest. Many could not read, write, or understand Latin
clerical ignorance
a follower of the 14th century English religious reformer John Wycliffe, believed that the church should aid people to live a life of evangelical poverty and imitate Jesus Christ
Lollards
An essay that was written to criticize Christians for not “imitating Christ”
Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
a philosophy advocating the self-fulfillment of humanity within the framework of Christian principles
Christian humanism
Founder of Lutheranism, kick started the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
German Dominican friar whose preaching on indulgences, considered by many of his contemporaries to be an abuse of the sacrament of penance, sparked Martin Luther’s reaction
Johann Tetzel
propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written by Martin Luther
95 Theses
doctrine that says priests are not necessary, all individuals have access to God through Christ
“priesthood of all believers”
An imperial meeting of the Holy Roman Empire, convened to determine how authorities (both political and religious) should respond to Martin Luther’s teachings
Diet of Worms
28 articles presented by Lutheran princes and representatives of “free cities” at the Diet of Augsburg that set forward what the Lutherans believed
Confessions of Augsburg
Holy Roman Emperor during the Protestant Reformation
Charles V
peasant uprising in Germany. Inspired by changes brought by the Reformation, peasants in western and southern Germany invoked divine law to demand agrarian rights and freedom from oppression by nobles and landlords.
German Peasants War
The demands of the peasants in the German Peasants War, asking for human rights and civil liberties
Twelve Articles
a military alliance of Lutheran princes within the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-16th century
League of Schmalkalden
A treaty between German Princes and Charles V that allowed the state princes to select either Lutheranism or Catholicism as the religion of their domain and permitted the free emigration of residents who dissented
Peace of Augsburg, 1555
member of a fringe, or radical, movement of the Protestant Reformation and spiritual ancestor of modern Baptists, Mennonites, and Quakers. Adult baptisms
Anabaptists
Jan Matthijs, the leader of Munster’s Anabaptists, proclaimed that anyone who refused to be baptized would be killed
Tragedy at Münster
leader of the church reformation in Switzerland, bible is sole authority says that wine and cracker were only symbolic
Ulrich Zwingli, Zürich
a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation, founder of Calvinists
John Calvin
written by John Calvin, a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology.
Institutes of the Christian Religion
the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.
predestination
Calvin set up his model Christian community, was a place of refuge for Protestants
Geneva
the council of cardinals, with or without the Pope
Consistory