Chapter 13 Flashcards
Anticlericalism
Opposition to the clergy focusing on 3 main problems. Clerical immortality, clerical ignorance, clerical pluralism.
Indulgence
A Catholic idea that those who sin could repent through fasting, confessing to a priest, and praying which late advanced.
Protestant
All non-Catholic western Christian groups that are followers of Luther.
Spanish Armada
A fleet sent by Philip the II of Spain against England as a religious crusade leading to a victory against Protestantism.
The Institute of the Christian Religion
A systematic theology for protestants following Calvin Geneva’s necessary ideas.
Predestination
A teaching that God has already determined your fate and good merit or work will not change it.
Holy Office
The official holy roman agency founded to combat international doctrine.
Jesuits
Society of Jesus whose goal was to spread Catholic Faith
Huguenots
French Calvinists
Politiques
Moderates who believed that only a strong monarchy could save France.
Edict of Nantes
A document issued to grant liberty of public conscience to worship Calvinists which restored peace in France.
Union of Utrecht
The alliance of 7 northern provinces that declared independence from Spain and formed the united provinces.