Reformation Vocabulary

People who sided with Martin Luther and protested against the Catholic Church

• Missionaries

• Protestors

• Indulgences

• Protestants

According to the Catholic Church, a place where souls wait before entering heaven

• purgatory

• penitence

• indulgence

• perdition

A proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved, think Martin Luther and his ninety-five

• theology

• thesis

• tithe

• indulgence

Granted by the pope to lessen the time spent in purgatory due, in order to declare someone free of sins

• indulgence

• tithes

• impertinence

• forgiveness

A religious war between Catholics and Protestants in Europe

• 10 years

• 20 years

• 30 years

• 40 years

The efforts by the Catholic Church to make changes or reform the Catholic Church

• Protestant Reformation

• European Reformation

• German Reformation

• Catholic Reformation

Christian place of worship

• temple

• church

• apse

• nave

An agreement after the Thirty Years' War allowing rulers of countries to decide for themselves if they would be Protestant or Catholic

• Treaty of Westfalls

• Diet of Worms

• Edict of Nantes

• Treaty of Westphalia

A person sent to spread a particular religion, for example Christianity to non-Christian people

• Jesuit

• missionaries

• Catholic

• Reformation

A period of change in Christianity in Europe

• Jesuit

• missionaries

• Catholic

• Reformation