Transformations in Europe 1500-1750
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| 134718442 | Religious Reformation | In 1500, the Catholic Church, benefiting from European prosperity, was building new churches , including a new Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope Leo x raised money for the new Basilica by authorizing the sale of indulgences | 0 | |
| 134718443 | Indulgences | Redemption of punnishment a sinner would suffer in purgatory often granted by renniasance priests in order to pay for expences of the church | 1 | |
| 134718444 | Martin Luther | Challenged the pope on the issue of indulgences and other practices that he considered corrupt or not Christain. Luther began the Protestant Reformation, arguing that salvation could be by faith alone, that Christian belief could be based only on the Bible and on Christian tradition | 2 | |
| 134718445 | John Calvin | John Calvin was responsible for founding Calvinism, which was reformed Catholicism. He writes about it in "Institutes of a Christian Religion" published in 1536. He believed God was all knowing and everyone was predestined for heaven or hell. | 3 | |
| 134718446 | Protestant Reformation | Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519. It resulted in the 'protesters' forming several new Christian denominations, including the Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England. Appealed not only to religious sentiments but also to Germans who disliked the Italian - dominated Catholic Church and to peasants and urban workers who wanted to reject the religion of their masters. | 4 | |
| 134718447 | Catholic Church | Agreed to a number of internal reforms and a reaffermation of fundamental Catholic beliefs in the Council of Trent. These responses to the the Protestant Reformation, along with the activities of the newly established Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) comprise the "Catholic Reformation" | 5 | |
| 134718448 | Protestant Reformation led to.... | Many wars of religion but the last of them concluded in 1648 | 6 |
