Renaissance VocabularyPart II

Indulgences

•Lessening of the time a soul would have to spend in purgatory

•The church is giving out indulgences today.•

•All Catholics want indulgences, the less time in purgatory the better.

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Diet

•Assembly of German princes

•(assembly is a legislature – type of government)

•Luther was ordered to come to the diet.

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•In the Renaissance, important people would come to the diet and discuss important issues.

Doctrine

•Practice, teaching

•Doctrines were created during the Renaissance.

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•Even though it was hard to believe everything he taught, many people accepted Luther’s doctrines.

Predestination

•The doctrine that God has determined long ago who would gain salvation.

•God already decided who is going to heaven or not.

•Predestination can scare people because nothing can change their fate.

Theocracy

•Government run by church leaders

•The country was a theocracy. •

•Calvin set up a theocracy to run the Geneva community.

Annulment

•To cancel a marriage

•We annulled the meeting

•Many people annul their marriages.

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•Their marriage was over when the Pope granted an annulment.

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Inqusition

•Church court established during the Middle Ages

•The Inquisition was very strong.•

•The Inquisition used torture to stop heresy and protect the Catholic church from Protestant traitors.

Anglican

•The Church of England

•The King was an Anglican.

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•The new church in England was called the Anglican Church.

Ghetto

•Separate living quarter in the city for minority groups

•We had to drive through the ghetto when we went to New York.

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•The Jews were forced to move to a ghetto because they were being persecuted by the government.

heliocentric

•theory that the sun is the center of the universe

•Heliocentric theory was another step forward for science.

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•Copernicus wrote a paper explaining that the universe was sun-centered, or heliocentric.

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