AP Euro Chapter 13: Key Notes

anticlericalism

opposition to the clergy

Indulgence

A document issued by the Catholic Church lessening penance or time in purgatory

Protestant

The name originally given to followers of Luther

Spanish Armada

The fleet sent by Philip III of Spain in 1588 against England as a religious crusade against protestantism

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Calvins formulation of Christian Doctrine, which became a systematic theology for Protestantism

predestination

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

Holy Office

The official Roman Catholic agency, founded in 1512 to combat international doctrinal heresy

Jesuits

Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola, the goal was to spread the Roman Catholic Faith

Huguenots

French Calvinists

politiques

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

Edict of Nantes

A document issued by Henry IV of Frnace, granting liberty of conscience of public worship to Calvanists, which helped restore peace in France

Union of Utrecht

an 1579 alliance of Dutch provinces to resist Spanish rule, forming the basis of the Dutch Republic, and a 1889 federation of Old Catholic Churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, with its own theological principles and structure