| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Calvinists | the followers of John Calvin who believed in calvinism |
| indulgences | a pardon, it released a sinner from performing the penalty that a priest imposed for sins, gave the people the idea they could buy there way into heaven, reduced your time in purgatory |
| Reformation | a movement for religious reform, led to finding chritsian churches that didn't accept pope's authority. making changes to the church |
| predestination | Calvin's religious theory that God has already planned out a person's life. |
| Huguenots | French Calvinists. |
| Protestant | christians that belonged to a non-catholic church, protested against catholic chruches |
| Lutherans | followers of Martin Luther who were member of a protestant church |
| Presbyterians | followers of John Knox -leaders of the church called presbyters |
| Anabaptists | baptized only people who could decide if they wanted to be catholic (baptized as adults) |
| Edict of Nantes | document that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots |
| Peace of Augsburg | agreement declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler , ended the 30 years war |
| Council of Trent | catholic bishops and cardinals discussed the catholic church- faith and good works = salvation, indulgences= valid expressions of faith, bible and church were equally powerful |
| Martin Luther | a monk, taught at University of Wittenburg- people could win salvation, only by believing in forgiveness, church teaching based off the bible, all people with faith are equal, no pope, no indulgences, plain/simple |
| John Calvin | France, believed in predestination, humans can't earn salvation, men and women are sinful by nature |
| Henry VIII | Established the Church of England/ Anglican because he wanted a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, she couldn't produce a son, had six wives |
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