The Reformation (Junior Cert History): Flashcards

16th century movement to reform Catholic Church, created Protestants

Buying or selling Church positions

Payments to reduce punishment for sins/time in purgatory

1517

Salvation through faith in Jesus, not by deeds/good works

Imperial council where Luther refused to recant his teachings

Luther's followers who broke from Catholic Church

Only two: baptism and communion

God has already decided who goes to heaven

Ignatius Loyola (1534)

Banned simony, nepotism, absenteeism, pluralism, indulgences

1618-1648

Rulers choose state religion; minorities can worship privately

Protestant north, Catholic south

Catholics decorated churches lavishly