Unit 2 vocab

anticlericism

Opposition to the clergy.

Charles V

Holy Roman Empire; fought for decades against Protestantism in Germanic states

Edict of Nantes

A document issued by Henry IV of France in 1598, granting liberty of conscience and of public worship to Calvinists, which helped restore peace in France.

Elizabeth l

Long reigning queen of England; systemitized the doctrines and practices of the Church of England

Henry ll

king of France; issued the Edict of Nantes promising religious toleration to Protestants in France

Henry VIII

king of England; brought Protestantism to England in the form of the Church of England of which he was head

Holy Office

The official Roman Catholic agency founded in 1542 to combat international doctrinal heresy.

Huguenots

French Calvinists

indulgence

document issued by the Catholic Church lessening penance or time in purgatory, widely believed to bring forgiveness of all sins.

Jesuits

Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith.

John Calvin

Theologian and magistrate in Geneva

Martin Luther

Initiated the Protestant reformation in 1517

politiques

Catholic and Protestant moderates who held that only a strong monarchy could save France from total collapse.

predestination

The teaching that God has determined the salvation or damnation of individuals based on his will and purpose, not on their merit or works.

Protestant

The name originally given to followers of Luther, which came to mean all non-Catholic Western Christian groups.

Spanish Armada

The fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 against England as a religious crusade against Protestantism. Weather and the English fleet defeated it.

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvin's formulation of Christian doctrine, which became a systematic theology for Protestantism.

Union of Utrecht

The alliance of seven northern provinces (led by Holland) that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands.