Friday, May 24, 2019

pg 494 Question 1, 3, 4

1.) For each term, write a sentence explaining its significance.       
     - indulgence: a pardon for sinners to not have a punishment for their wrong action; didn't affect God's right to 
       judge who came to heaven but Tetzel said it could buy a way into heaven 
     - Reformation: a movement for religious reform; led to the founding of Christian churches
     - Luthern: what Luther and his followers' religion was called
     - Protestant: Christians who belong to non-Catholic churches
     - Peace of Augsburg: a famous religious settlement that decided that each ruler could determine the religion 
       of that state
     - annul: set aside (for marriage)
     - Anglican: Church of England with Elizabeth as head

3.) What political, economic, and social factors helped bring about the Reformation?

     - powerful monarchs challenged Church as the supreme power in Europe
     - many leaders viewed the pope as a foreign ruler and challenged authority

     - European princes and kings were jealous of the Church's wealth
     - merchants and others resented having to pay taxes to Church

     - Renaissance values of humanisms and secularism led to people to question Church
     - the printing press helped to spread ideas critical of Church

4.) From where did the term Protestantism originate?

     - developed out of the Reformation (16th-century protest in Europe against beliefs and practices of the 
       Catholic Church

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