Protestant Reformation.

Indulgences

Indulgences

________: paid grants that allowed a person's sins to be forgiven.

Catholicism

________ remained dominant in the south and southwest, and soon enough, people from the reformation ended up converting back to ________ because they wanted to follow the religion of their home country.

Protestant Reformation

________: Protesting about something (in this case, we 're talking about religion) in order to make it better.

Around what years did the Protestant Reformation start and end?

1450s - 1600s

3 ways the Church countered the Reformists

Inquisitions, Jesuits, Council of Trent

Inquisitions

Punishments for non-believers or rebels

3 main groups of protestants

Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism

Lutheranism

did not like indulgences, believed that everyone could be saved; salvation comes from devotion/faith

Calvinism

group of protestants that stressed strongly on predestination

Anglicanism

a group that's almost halfway between Roman-Catholics and the reformists side