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21 Cards in this Set
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Baroque
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the sensuous (very emotional) and dynamic style of the Counter-Reformation
[artists included Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, & El Greco] (reformation) |
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Brethren of the Common Life
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-pious laypeople in 16th-century Holland who initiated a revival in their model of Christian living
-also taught & did charity -prayer, meditation, careful scripture study to seek perfection, using Christ as their model (reformation) |
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John Calvin
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1509-1564
a French theologian who established a theocracy in Geneva, founded Calvinism, & is best known for his theory of predestination (reformation) |
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Calvin's writings describing predestination
(reformation) |
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Charles V
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r. 1519-1556
Habsburg dynastic ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and of extensive territories in Spain & the Netherlands (reformation) |
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Council of Trent
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the congress of learned Roman Catholic authorities that met intermittently from 1545-1563 to reform abusive church practices & reconcile with the Protestants
(reformation) |
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Index of Prohibited Books
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a list of forbidden reading, published by the Holy Office
(reformation) |
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Indulgence
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a papal pardon for remission of sins
(reformation) |
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Inquisition
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a religious committee of six Roman cardinals that tried heretics and punished the guilty by imprisonment or execution
(reformation) |
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Jesuits
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(also known as the society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism
(later became agents to do the Pope's bidding, sometimes in radical ways) (reformation) |
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John Knox
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1505-1572
Calvinist leader in sixteenth-century Scotland (reformation) |
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Martin Luther
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1483-1546
German theologian who challenged the church's practice of selling indulgences (a challenge that ultimately led to the destruction of the unity of the Roman Catholic world) and emphasized faith and scripture study (reformation) |
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Sir Thomas More
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1478-1535
Renaissance humanist and chancellor of England, executed by Henry VIII for his unwillingness to publicly recognize the king as Supreme Head of the church and clergy of England (reformation) |
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Nepotism
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the practice of rewarding relatives with church positions
(reformation) |
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Peace of Augsburg
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1555
document in which Charles V recognized Lutheranism as a legal religion in the Holy Roman Empire; the faith of the prince determined the religion of his subjects (reformation) |
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Pluralism
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the practice of holding several benefices, or church offices, at once
(reformation) |
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Simony
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the selling of church offices
(reformation) |
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Theocracy
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a community, such as Calvin's Geneva, in which the state is subordinate (and ruled by) the church
(reformation) |
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Usury
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the practice of lending money for interest
(reformation) |
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Henry VIII
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1509-1547
created the Church of England (with himself at its head) when he sought to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn (reformation) |
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Johann Goethe
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"Dr.Faustus": demonstrated the deep spiritual problems that Europeans would encounter as the traditional moral and religious values of Christianity were abandoned
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