Reformation Flashcards
Martin Luther
Posted the 95 theses which started the reformation
Lutheranism
Indulgence
A pardon that released a sinner from performing the penalty a priest imposed for sins
Reformation
After the Renaissance, people wanted to reform the Catholic Church. Led to the founding of churches that rejected the pope’s authority
Lutherans
Followers of Martin Luther
Protestant
Christians belonging to non-Catholic churches
Henry VIII
Wanted to divorce his wife Catherine but against the church. Parliament legalized the divorce but church didn’t so broke away from the church which led the act of supremacy
Act of Supremacy
Act that called on people to take an oath that recognized Henry VIII’s divorce and recognizing him, not the pope, as the head of England’s church.
Mary
Daughter of Catherine and Henry VIII, she eventually took over the throne. Returned the head of the English church to the pope
Elizabeth I
Inherited throne after Mary
Protestant, set the church back up with her at the head
Anglican
Church of England
John Calvin
Reformer who published The Institutes of Christian Religion, a summary of no theology
Started Calvinism
Calvinism
Believed in predestination
Men and women are sinners by nature
Ideal govt is a theocracy (controlled by religious leaders)
Predestination
Calvinist belief that only some people are able to achieve salvation
Theocracy
Ideal Calvinist govt ruled by religious leaders
Ignatius of Loyola
Wrote the book called Spiritual Exercises
Gained followers (Jesuits)
3 goals of Jesuits: found schools, convert non-Christians to Catholicism, stop the spread of Protestantism
Presbyterian
Members of a Protestant church governed by presbyters and founded on the teachings of John Knox
Knox
Follower of John Calvin
Created Presbyterianism
Anabaptists
Protestant group member that believed in baptizing only those who are old enough to decide to be Christian
Believed in separation of church and state
Jesuits
Followers of Ignatius of Loyola
Catholic reformation
Movement where the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response to the Protestant reformation
Council of Trent
Meeting of Roman Catholic leaders called by pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant reformers
