Reformation Vocab

a Christian who separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation; today, any member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation

• Lutheran

• Protestant

• Catholic

• Martin Luther

a religious reform movement from the early 1500s to the 1600s that led to the formation of new Christian groups

• Reformation

• Civils Rights Movement

• Counter-Reformation

• Abolitionism

a German priest who broke away from the Catholic Church to start his own religion, Lutheranism. His posting of the Ninety-Five Theses started the Reformation.

• Calvinism

• Lutheranism

• Puritans

• Martin Luther

a monarchy in which the ruler’s power is unlimited

• absolute monarchy

• nationalism

• theocracy

• humanism

a Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by Henry VIII in England

• Calvinism

• Anglicanism

• humanism

• Lutheran

a Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by John Calvin

• Lutheran

• Protestant

• Calvinism

• humanism

a movement of the Catholic Church, in reaction to the Reformation, in which Catholic leaders worked to correct abuses, to clarify and defend Catholic teachings, to condemn what they saw as Protestant errors, and to win back members

• Counter-Reformation

• Calvinism

• Lutheranism

• Reformation

a Protestant denomination of Christian faith founded by Martin Luther

• Calvinism

• humanism

• nationalism

• Lutheranism

the identification with, and devotion to, the interests of one’s nation

• nationalism

• denomination

• theocracy

• democracy

English Protestants who wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church of Catholic elements

• Lutherans

• Puritans

• Catholics

• Anglicanism