Reformation Review

Edict of Nantes

A document issued by Henry IV of France in 1598, granting liberty of conscience and of public worship to Calvinists, which helped restore peace in France

A lengthy Civil War

What did Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre lead to?

Politiques

Catholic and Protestant moderates who held that only a strong monarchy could save France from total collapse

The Colloquy of Marburg

failed to resolve the differences among Protestants on the issue of the Eucharist

Huguenots

French Calvinists

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

John Calvin's formulation of Christian Doctrine, which became a systematic theology for Protestantism

Protestant

The name originally given to Lutherans, which came to mean all non-Catholic Western Christian groups

The immorality of priests who were drunkards and neglected the rule of celibacy

In the early sixteenth century, anticlericalism focused primarily on which of the following issues?

indulgence

A document issued by the Catholic Church lessening penance or time in purgatory, widely believed to bring forgiveness of all sins.

Jesuits

Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith

anticlericalism

Opposition to the clergy

Spanish Armada

Sent by Spain's Philip II in 1588, this fleet constituted a religious crusade against English Protestantism; the English fleet and bade weather defeated it.

Habsburga-Valois Wars

The Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis ended the conflict known as the

Union of Utrecht

The alliance of seven northern provinces (led by Holland) that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Holy Office

The official Roman Catholic agency founded in 1542 to combat international doctrinal heresy.

predestination

The teaching that God has determined the salvation or damnation of individuals based on his will and purpose, not on their merit or works