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| A grant by the pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages |
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| A 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches |
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| A follower of Martin Luther |
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| A member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches |
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| was a treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schematically League, an alliance of Lutheran princes, on September 25, 1555, at the imperial city of Augsburg, now in present-day Bavaria, Germany. |
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| Declare invalid (an official agreement, decision, or result) |
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| Of, relating to, or denoting the Church of England or any Church in communion with it |
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| The divine foreordaining of all that will happen, esp. with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin |
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| The Protestant theological system of John Calvin and his successors, which develops Luther's doctrine of justification by faith alone and emphasizes the grace of God and the doctrine of predestination |
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| A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god |
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| Of, relating to, or denoting a Christian Church or denomination governed by elders according to the principles of Presbyterianism |
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| a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state |
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| was the period of Catholic revival beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648), which is sometimes considered a response to the Protestant Reformation. |
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| a member of the Jesuit order |
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| was the 16th-century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the Church's most important councils. ... |
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