AP Euro Chap 2 Vocab

Vernacular

The language or dialect spoken by the people in a particular country or region

Heretic

A person who differs in the opinion from the established religion

Salvation

Deliverance from sin and its consequences

Dogma

A principle or set of principles that is proclaimed as true without being questioned

Doctrine

A belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group

Wrath

Extreme anger

Ecclesiastical

of or associated with a church or its clergy

Hierarchy

A series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

Omnipotence

The quality of having unlimited or very great power

Denomination

A recognized independent branch of the Christian Church