The Beginning of the Protestant Reformation

Tithe: one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the __________ and clergy.

Church

Persecution: hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of __________ or political or religious beliefs.

race

Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of __________ to a deity.

reverence

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established __________ or customs.

beliefs

Indulgence in the Roman Catholic Church is a way to reduce the amount of __________ one has to undergo for sins.

punishment

Vernacular refers to the __________ used in everyday life by the common people of a specific population.

language

Excommunication is to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from __________ of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.

sacraments

Martin Luther was a seminal figure in the __________ Reformation.

Protestant

John Calvin believed that man was helpless before an all-powerful God, and thus there was no such thing as __________.

free will

The spirit that emphasized hard work and thriftiness came to be known as the __________ Work Ethic.

Protestant