World History Quiz- Reformation

Union of Utrecht

the alliance of seven northern provinces of the Netherlands all of which were Protestant, that declared independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands.

Diet of Worms

An assembly of the Estates of the Holy Roman empire convened by Charles V in the German city of Worms. It was here, in 1521, that Martin Luther refused to recant his writings.

Predestination

Calvin's teaching that, by God's decree, some persons are guided to salvation and others to damnation; that God has called us not according to our works but according to his purpose and grace.

Politiques

Catholic and Protestant moderates who sought to end the religious violence in France by restoring a strong monarchy and granting official recognition to the Huguenots.

Huguenots

French Calvinists

Indulgence

a papal statement granting remission of a priest-imposed penalty for sin

Protestant reformation

a religious reform movement that began in the early sixteenth century that split the Western Christian Church

Jesuits

members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola and approved by the papacy in 1540, whose goal was the spread of Roman Catholic faith through humanistic schools and missionary activity.

Protestant

originally meaning "a follower of Luther" this term came to be generally applied to all non-Catholic western European Christians.