Renaissance / Reformation
HWC 40S
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- Jesuits
- also known as Society of Jesus, founded by Loyola and his followers- organized along military lines, pledged absolute obedience to the pope
- Vernacular
- everyday language of people
- Renaissance
- period from about 1350 to 1600 in which european scholars revied the learning of ancient Greece and Rome
- Extended Family
- large family group usually made up of a husband and wife, their unmarried children, their married sons, and the sons' wives and children
- Inquistion
- a church based court in Itlay, to find, try and judge heretics- especially protestants, main purpose to restore pope's authority over church members
- Seminary
- training schools, for the proper education of priests
- Excommunication
- exclusion from the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church
- Protestant Reformation
- the series of events that gave birth to Protestantism
- Ignatitus Loyola
- Catholic reformer that developed a set of spirtual exercises to help people achieve inner peace and founded the group Jesuits
- Nuclear Family
- family made of parents, children and occasionally grandparents
- Predestination
- idea that God has chosen who will be saved
- Simony
- in the Middle Ages, buying and selling of religious offices
- Justification by Faith
- humans are not saved through their good works but through their faith in God
- Humanities
- subjects taught in ancient Greek and Roman schools, including grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history; streesed by Renaissance scholars
- Johannes Gutenberg
- German, the inventor of the movable printing press
- Indulgences
- certificates issued by the Church that were said to reduce or even cancel punishment for a person's sins as long as one also truly repented- document would assure them admission into heaven