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13.3 protestant
Protestant reformation
Term | Definition |
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Martin Luther | The man who triggered the protest against the church and cause abuse to erupt into a full scale revolt. This man was a german monk and professor of theology. |
Charles V | A Holy Roman emperor who made luther an outlaw, making it a crime for anyone in the empire to give him food or shelter. |
John Calvin | Profoundly affected the direction of the reformation. He shared many of the same beliefs as luther's yet also put forth a few of his own as well. He preached for predestination and said that the world was divided into two kinds of people saints and sinner |
Indulgences | It was a lesson of the time a soul would have to spend in purgatory, a place where souls too impure to enter heaven atoned for sins committed during their lifetimes. |
wittenberg | The town where Johann Tetzel set up a pulpit; the 4th largest town in germany |
diet | Assembly of German princes, comes from a middle English word meaning " a day for a meeting" |
predestination | the idea that god had long ago determined who would gain salvation. |
Geneva | a swiss state |
Theocracy | government run by church leaders |