VOCAB

Indulgences- remission of part or all of the temporal and especially purgatorial punishment that according to Roman Catholicism is due for sins whose eternal punishment has been remitted and whose guilt has been pardoned

Protestant- a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth; broadly : a Christian not of a Catholic or Eastern Church

Purgatory- a state after death according to Roman Catholic belief in which the souls of people who die are made through suffering before going to heaven

Simony- the buying or selling of a church office or ecclesiastical preferment

Nepotism- the unfair practice by a powerful person of giving jobs and other favors to relatives

Pluralism- a situation in which people of different social classes, religions,

95 Theses- The documents that Martian Luther posted on a wall to explain the outlines of the church.

Predestination- the belief that everything that will happen has already been decided by God or fate and cannot be changed

Transubstantiation- the belief in some Christian religions that the bread and wine given at Communion become the body and blood of Jesus Christ when they are blessed

Jesuits- a man who is a member of a religious group called the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus

Diet of worms- meeting of the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire held at Worms, Germany, in 1521 that was made famous by Martin Luther's appearance before it to respond to charges of heresy.

Peace of Augsburg- first permanent legal basis for the existence of Lutheranism as well as Catholicism in Germany, promulgated on September 25,1555, by the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire assembled earlier that year at Augsburg

Council of Trent- 19th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church (1545-1563), highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants.

Counter reformation- the Roman Catholic efforts directed in the 16th and early 17th centuries both against the Protestant Reformation and toward internal renewal