The Protestant Reformation

a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of the Christian churches that rejected the Pope's authority

• Reformation

• Renaissance

• Reconquista

• Reconstruction

person who holds controversial opinions, especially one who publicly dissents from the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church

• delinquent

• convict

• heretic

the doctrines & teachings of John Calvin or his followers, emphasizing predestination, the Sovereignty of God, and the supreme authority of the Scriptures

• Lutheranism

• Presbyterian

• Calvinism

• Anglicanism

the formal statements Luther documented against the sale of indulgences; posted on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, October 31, 1517

• Magna Carta

• Hammurabi's Code

• 95 Theses

• Ten Commandments

the idea of Calvinist Protestants that certain people were pre-selected to go to heaven

• self-determination

• predestination

• indulgences

• heretic

 Theologian and religious reformer who started the Reformation with his Ninety Five Theses which protested church corruption, namely the sale of indulgences

• John Knox

• Martin Luther

• John Calvin

• Henry VIII

letters of forgiveness for one's sins provided by the Medieval Church & one of the causes of the Reformation

• licenses

• predestination

• indulgences

• heretic

Of or relating to the branch of the Protestant Church adhering to the views of Martin Luther; teachings of Martin Luther emphasizing the doctrine of faith alone

• Lutheranism

• Calvinism

• Anglican Church

Decree issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, banning the writings of Martin Luther and label

• predestination

• Edict of Worms

• excommunication

• Council of Trent

member of Christian religious sect which formed during the Protestant Reformation

• Protestant

• Edict of Worms

• Council of Trent

• Catholic Reformation