Renaissance and Reformation Vocabulary
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- Utopia
- ideal place
- Jesuits
- members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius Loyal
- Huldrych Zwingli
- Swiss priest who led the Protestant movement in Switzerland
- Justification by faith
- Martin Luther's concept that faith alone is enough to bring salvation
- Heresy
- disagreement with, or denial of, the basic teachings of a religion
- Vernacular
- native or efery day language
- Inquisition
- church court set up to stamp out heresy
- Excommunication
- formal exclusion from membership or patricipation in a church
- Indulgences
- pardon sold by Catholic Church to reduce one's punishment
- Simony
- the selling of offical positions in the meieval Roman Catholic Church
- Perspective
- technique that shows three diamensions on a flat surface
- Baroque
- ornate, dramatic artistic style, sparked by the Catholic Reformation, which developed in Europe in the 1550s
- Huguenots
- French Protestants
- Patron
- person who financially supports the arts
- Predestination
- doctrine of John Calvin that adhered to the idea that each person's fate is predetermined by God
- Theocracy
- government headed by religious leaders or a leader regarded as a god
- Council of Trent
- meeting of Roman Catholic leaders called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by Protestant reformers
- Humanism
- doctrine (belief) or attitude that is concerned primarily with human beings and their values, capacities and achievements
- Seminary
- school for educating pricests
- City-state
- idependent state consisting of a city and surrounding land and villages
- Peace of Augsburg
- disagreement with, or denial of, the basic teachings of a religion
- Anabaptist
- member of a protestant group that belived in baptizing only those persons who were old enough to decide to be Christian and believed in the separation of church and state
- Renaissance
- rebirth
- Secular
- wordly and concerned with now