Name
Date
Block
Protestant Reformation
Vocabulary
REFORMATION VOCABULARY
WH Ch. 15.1 – People Challenge the Catholic Church’s Authority
WORD
authority
DEFINITION
Power
Reformer
A person who tries to change something, such as the
leaders of the Protestant Reformation
heretic
A person who holds a belief that a religious authority
thinks is false
WH Ch. 15.2 – Martin Luther Leads the Reformation
WORD
Reformation
DEFINITION
A movement that challenged the Roman Catholic
Church in Europe
salvation
Eternal happiness for one’s soul in heaven; being
delivered from going to hell
indulgence
A church document saying that a person will not be
punished after death for his or her sins
purgatory
According to the Roman Catholic Church, a place for
people who were not going to hell, but weren’t yet
holy enough to get into heaven, to suffer for their
sins
thesis
A statement that people argue about or try to prove
Name
Date
Block
Protestant Reformation
Vocabulary
WH Ch. 15.3 – Luther Starts His Own Church
WORD
DEFINITION
excommunicate To take away a person’s membership in a church
Lutheran
Church
The Protestant church established by Martin Luther
minister
A Protestant church leader, usually responsible for
preaching, administering baptism and communion,
and leading a local church
ritual
A ceremony
baptism
A ritual using water, by which a person identifies
himself as a Christian
communion
A ritual using bread and “the fruit of the vine” (wine
or grape juice), by which Christians remember the
death of Jesus Christ
Protestant
Christians who protested against the Roman Catholic
Church and separated from it to form new churches
Name
Date
Block
Protestant Reformation
Vocabulary
WH Ch. 15.4 – Protestant Ideas Spread to England
WORD
annul
DEFINITION
To announce that a marriage never existed between
two people
Anglican Church The Protestant Church of England
compromise
An agreement in which both sides give up something
Puritan
An English Protestant who wanted to purify the
Anglican Church of anything “Catholic”
purify
To make clean
WH Ch. 15.5 – John Calvin Organizes Reformed Protestantism
WORD
Calvinism
DEFINITION
The Protestant movement named for John Calvin, a
French-Swiss Reformer; also called “Reformed
theology”
elect
“The chosen ones”; those whom God predestined to
save before the world began
elder
An experienced, mature person (often older) who
helps to “oversee” a Protestant church
Huguenot
A French Protestant
massacre
The act of killing many people, who are often
defenseless
Name
Date
Block
Protestant Reformation
Vocabulary
WH Ch. 15.6 – The Catholic Counter Reformation
WORD
Counter
Reformation
DEFINITION
The Roman Catholic Church’s reforms at the Council
of Trent that attempted to fight Protestantism
censor
To prevent someone from reading or viewing
something
Inquisition
A Catholic court that inquired into people’s religious
beliefs
Jesuit
A member of the Catholic religious order called the
“Society of Jesus,” founded by Ignatius Loyola