A | B |
Recant | for a person to give up their views |
diet | assembly |
theocracy | government run by church leaders |
Peace of Augsburg | allowed the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire to decide what religion would be followed in his lands |
John Calvin | born in France |
Huguenot | French Calvinists |
John Knox | a Calvinist preacher in Scotland who set up the Scottish Presbyterian Church |
Indulgence | lessening of time that a soul would stay in purgatory |
Predestination | the idea that long ago God had determined who would gain salvation |
Protestant Reformation | a movement to protest the church’s corrupt practices in an attempt to force the church to reform |
Martin Luther | a German monk and professor of theology who protested the church’s corruption with his 95 thesis posted on All Saints Church door |