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John Calvin
Reformers and Martin Luther criticized the Catholic church and established new interpretations of Christian doctrine and practice.
Martin Luther
was an Augustinian monk who studied the New Testament and came to believe that salvation was obtained by faith alone.
Charles V
agreed to the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, recognizing Protestantism and allowing German princes to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism.
Thomas More
, an English humanist, wrote Utopia in 1516, which was about an island outside of Europe where children receive an education in the Greek and Roman classics and problems have been solved by government.
James Knox
, who studied in Geneva with Calvin, succeeded in convincing the Scottish government to set up a Calvinist church as the official state Church of Scotland (Presbyterianism)
Florence
was ruled at the time by the Medici family, who were bankers.
Germany
Sales in were run by a Dominican friar, Johann Tetzel, who promised that the purchase of the indulgence would bring full forgiveness for ones sins or the sins of a loved one in purgatory.
Lorenzo
(Medici) the Magnificent advocated for civic humanism, the idea that it was the duty of citizens to be involved in politics and help the community.
Sweden
In , Gustavus Vasa helped bring Protestantism to the region.
New Testament
He created Greek and Latin versions of the and wrote the satirical work The Praise of Folly criticizing religious and political institutions.
Holy Roman Emperor
In 1521, the calls an assembly of nobility and clergy in the city of Worms and calls Luther to appear.
scientific inquiry
Humanists challenged the power of the catholic church and moved away from theological works, focusing on .
Ancient Greek
The Renaissance was characterized by an interest in and Roman literature and philosophy, which was used to develop new ideas.
Northern Renaissance
The retained a more religious outlook, resulting in human- focused naturalism that made everyday humans and life the center of artistic works.
Individual behavior
was modeled in works such as Castigliones Book of The Courtier, which was a training manual for the ideal gentleman, and how to rise in society to the top.
Prince of Humanists Desiderius Erasmus
The " was famous for wanting to unite classical Italian ideals like humanism and civic virtue with biblical values like love and piety.
Christian humanism
, which was written about by Erasmus, employed renaissance learning in the service of religious reform.
John Calvin
used the ideas of Gods sovereignty and his omnipotence to conclude that human beings could do nothing to save themselves, and that God had decided at the beginning of time who would and who would not be saved (predestination)
Signs of disorder and abuse in the church were
clerical immorality, clerical ignorance, unfair clerical privileges, and clerical plurality/absenteeism