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Christian humanism |
Humanist movement in northern Europe emphasizing study of the Bible and the early church fathers |
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Brother and sisters of the common life |
Religious community founded in the Netherlands that cared for the needy, following the example of jesus |
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Pulpit |
Raised and enclosed platform for preaching |
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Parish priests |
Clergymen in charge of church life in the basic local unit of the church, the parish |
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Girolamo savonarola |
Italian Dominican friar who tried to carry out church reform in Florence |
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Desiderius Erasmus |
Dutch humanist, theologian, and textual scholar whose writings influenced the movement for church reforms |
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Sir Thomas more |
English lawyer and humanist, author of Utopia and friend of Erasmus |
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Martin Luther |
German Monk who led a church reform movement in Germany that became the Lutheran form of protestantism |
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Absolution |
At the end of confession, words spoken by a Catholic priest, acting as God's agent, that grant forgiveness of a person's sins |
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Johannes Tetzel |
Dominican friar whose sale of indulgences angered Martin Luther |
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Indulgences |
Documents applying the good works of Christmas and his saints to cancel the divine punishment of one's own sins or those of a dead friend or relative |
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Grace |
Gods help in making a person righteous |
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Works |
Good deeds performed in order to become righteous in the sight of god |
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Sacrament |
Religious practice or ceremony that symbolizes a deer religious reality the seven sacraments are baptism, communion (eucharist), confirmation, confession (penance), ordination, marriage, and unction in sickness |
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Purgatory |
The place where the souls of the departed were sentenced for their earthly sins before entering heaven |
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Justification |
Luther's teaching that righteousness before God comes from God alone, not from a combination of God's grace and human works |
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Free will |
Teaching that people can freely will to do good works and thereby merit God's grace |
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Ninety-five theses |
Luther's public attack on indulgences |
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Imperial diet |
Holy roman empire's legislative body |
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Charles V |
Heir of ferdinand and isabella in Spain and of the emperor maximilian in the holy roman empire; the most powerful European ruler during the first half of the 16th century |
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Priesthood of all believers |
Luther's teaching that all Christians exercise priestly functions in the Christian church |
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Scripture alone |
Luther's teaching that the Bible was the only authorative guide for Christian belief and conduct |
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Pure gospel |
Reform program of German protestant reformers in the cities of the empire endorsing some of Luther's reforms but rejecting others |
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Huldrych zwingli |
Swiss reformer who accepted some of luther's theological points but rejected others |
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Peasants' war |
Uprising, 1524-1525, in Southern germany inspired by protestant calls for a reform of church and society |
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Peace of Augsburg |
First major treaty, 1555, to accept the split in western Christianity between protestant and catholic |