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Defintions

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Simony- making profit off of holy things

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Nepotism- patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics

Pluralism- a theory that there is more than one basic substance or principle.

Purgatory- a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins

Protestant- any Western Christian who is not an adherent of a Catholic, Anglican, or Eastern Church

Indulgences- the remission of punishment due for sins which had already been confessed and absolution given

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95 Theses- Written by Matin Luther set up the new way for the church and helped form the Protestant Reformation

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Predestination- Divine foreknowledge of all that will happen

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Transubstantiation- the conversion of the substance of the Eucharist elements into the body and blood of Christ at consecration

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Jesuits- a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests

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Diet of Worms- imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in Worms, Germany. A diet was a formal deliberative assembly.

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Peace of Augsburg- was a treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schmalkaldic

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Council of Trent- One of Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils

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Counter Reformation- period of Catholic revival beginning with the council of Trent and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War and was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation