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American Religious Traditions
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 3
02/22/2009

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Indulgences
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Pieces of paper from the catholic church that people could buy for themselves or others to attain salvation
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sola scriptura
Definition
the bible is the ultimate authority (not the church), lutherans doctrine
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sola fide
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"by faith alone" luthers document
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Corporate Salvation
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good works + church sacraments + god's grace = salvation. one can simply buy their own, or someone elses salvation by buying an indulgence in germany. Everyone can help everyone out.
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Faith
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Belief
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transubstantiation
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catholics believe that the bread and wine used during the Eucharist magically transformed into the actual blood and body of jesus christ during mass.
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predestination
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god has already elected certain people to enter the kingdom of heaven, good will and faith of a non-elect will not enable them to enter the kingdom of god.
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double predestination
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god has already elected certain people to enter the kingdom of god, but he has also determined the people that are going to hell as well.
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"the priesthood of all believers"
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each person can interpret the bible for themselves, hence they are their own priest.
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Sacraments
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5 Different in the church:
1: Unction of the sick, 2. Echarist, 3. Baptism, 4. Marriage, 5. Priesthood, 6. Confession, and Myroon. only five of these are required,
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Magesterial Reformation
Definition
Reformation initiated by civil authority
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High Church vs. Low Church Ritual
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High Church- includes extremely ritualistic services, with incense, traditional hymns, hiearchy, etc

Low church- ritual is less structured, and primates the church.
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Radical Monotheism
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appreciation of gods mystery. "Job"
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Theodicy
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divine justice
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Arminianism
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people can determine their salvation via-free will. (Jacobus Arminius).
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Anabaptist
Definition
re-baptize or believers' baptism.
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Puritans Vs. Pilgrims
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Puritans were still part of the church of england, but they wanted to be an example of how the people in england should be. aka "city upon a hill"

on the other hand, Pilgrims completely disassociated themselves with the church of england.

Pilgrims and puritans both believed that the church of england was too close to Catholicism.

Pilgrims wanted each church to be self governed.
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"City on a hill"
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Puritans wanted to show the church of england how amazing their city was in America.
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Covenant
Definition
misfortunes were a sign of God's distaste. they had a quasi contract that would say that god would act favorably to them as long as they were true reformers. and observed gods laws.
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Visible Saints
Definition
enlightened or elect people who wrote conversation narratives, they were given full church membership.
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