Reformation Vocabulary Review

Persuading a person to adopt a new religion or belief.

• covenant
• missionary
• convert
• predestination

A binding or sacred agreement.

• indulgences
• convert
• missionary
• covenant

A Calvinist doctrine that God has already chosen people for salvation and damnation before they are born and that individuals have no power to change God’s will.

• predestination
• convert
• covenant
• indulgences

A grant by the Catholic Church that released a person from punishment for sins, often in exchange for money.

• covenant
• Jesuits
• Protestant
• indulgences

A person who travels to a foreign country in order to do religious work.

• Council of Trent
• Inquisition
• convert
• missionary

A movement of opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, beginning in the 16th century. This was the beginning of a new Christian religion that directly competed with the Catholic Church

• Jesuits
• predestination
• Protestant
• Reformation

The Catholic Church’s effort to stop the spread of Protestantism.

• Protestant
• Counter Reformation
• Jesuits
• John Calvin

A court established by the RCC to investigate those who had “wandered” from the Catholic Church and its teachings.       

• Protestant
• Inquisition
• Henry VIII
• Ninety-Five Theses

An agreement reached in 1648, which recognized the permanent division of Western Europe into Catholic and Protestant nations and ended many ongoing religious wars.

• Council of Trent
• Jesuits
• Peace of Westphalia
• Desiderius Erasmus

A religious order founded in the early 1530s by Ignatius of Loyola to counter the Reformation and spread Catholicism through missionary work.

• Protestant
• Jesuits
• Reformation
• Counter Reformation