Unit 2 review
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- Predestination
- idea that god has chosen who will be saved
- Seminary
- the council decided that each diocese had to establish a seminary, or traning school, for the proper education of priests
- Inquisition
- intended to restore the pope's authority over church memebers
- Indulgences
- reduction of the punishment a sinner would suffer in purgatory; often granted by medieval and Renaissance popes
- Extended Family
- large family groups usually made up of a husband and wife, their unmarried children, their married sons, and the sons' wives and children
- Simony
- in the Middle Ages, buying and selling of religious offices
- Humanities
- subjects taught in aciencent Greek and Roman schools, including grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history; stressed by Renaissance scholars
- Renaissance
- period from about 1350 to 1600 in which European scholars revived the learning of ancient Greece and Rome
- Vernacular
- everyday language of people
- Ignatius Loyola
- gave up his life as a spanish noble to serve the catholic church. he developed a set of spiritual exercises to help people achieve inner peace
- Nuclear Family
- family made up of parents, children, and occasionally grandparents
- Excommunication
- exclusion from the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church