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Church History
Church History: Chapter 9: Between Reformation and Revolution
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Religious Studies
8th Grade
02/02/2011

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Term
Thirty Years War
Definition

1618-1648

 

Religious conflict between

Protestants and Catholics

 

 

 

Term
Treaties of Westphalia
Definition

1648

 

Ended Thirty Years War

 

Left Europe divided between

Protestant & Catholic states

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Absolute monarch
Definition

Rulers had unlimited power over subjects

 

Controlled every aspect of subjects' lives

including their religion

 

Form of caesaropapism

Term
"Established Church"
Definition

A state religion

 

Schools and charitable institutions under control of the Church

 

Clergy were landowners, paid no taxes, and collected their own taxes (tithes)

Term
caesaropapism
Definition
When a ruler has authority over the state and the church
Term
King Louis XIV
Definition

Catholic

 

France

 

Reign (1643-1715)

 

Term
Gallicanism
Definition

French form of caesaropapism

 

Louis XIV forced bishops to sign Gallican Articles

 

Crippled the pope's authority in France

Term
Josephism
Definition

Austrian form of caesaropapism

 

 

Term
Emperor Joseph II
Definition

Austrian emperor

 

Taxed the clergy, abolished monastaries, established state-run seminaries

Term

George Calvert

(1579-1632)

Definition

English

 

Received permission from King Charles I

to establish colony in the

New World

Term
Quakers
Definition

Settled in colony in Pennsylvania

 

Wanted religious freedom for themselves and others

Term
Penal Laws
Definition

English policy towards Catholics in Ireland

 

Deprived Irish Catholics of land, education and political power

 

Irish Catholics forced to give financial support to English Protestant Church

Term
Who was responsible for the evangelization of native peoples of the Americas?
Definition
Franciscan and Dominican friars
Term

Antonio Montesino

and

Bartolome de Las Casas

Definition

Spanish missionaries

Dominican friars

First modern civil rights leaders -

defended Indians from enslavement

 

 

Term
Where did St. Francis Xavier travel for missionary work?
Definition

India

Indonesia

Japan

Term
Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
Definition

Established by the pope in 1622

 

Supervises worldwide activities of Catholic missionaries

Term
Scientific Revolution
Definition

Period when new ideas in science led to rejection of rejection of old doctrines

 

Religion and superstition replaced by reason and knowledge

Term

Galileo

(1564-1642)

Definition

Proved that earth revolved around the sun

 

Condemned by Catholic Church

 

Forced to renounce his discovery

Term

Isaac Newton

(1642-1727)

Definition
Discovered Universal Law of Gravity
Term

English physician

 

Discovered the circulation of blood

 

Definition

William Harvey

(1578-1657)

Term

Richard Simon

(1638-1712)

Definition

French priest

 

Wrote book saying it was

not necessary to interpret the Bible literally

 

Should look to Bible for religious truths,

not scientific facts

Term
The Enlightenment
Definition

1700's movement centered in France

 

Strong belief in reason and science

 

Questioned traditional institutions, customs and morals

Term
Deism
Definition

A philosophy that holds that

observation of the natural world, and reason, can determine that a supreme being created the universe

(as opposed to the need for organized religion)

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