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| Name given to multiple Protestant groups who believed that only adults could make an informed decision about baptism. |
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| Book of Common Prayer(1559) |
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| Official prayer book of the church of England, containing the prayers for all services, the forms for administration of the sacraments, and a manual for the ordination of deacons, priests, bishops. |
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| Lutheran doctrine of the Eucharist: after consecration, the bread and wine undergo a spiritual change, become the Real Presence, but are not transformed. |
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| Series of Imperial meetings at the bishop's palace in Worms where Luther defended his doctrines before the emporer Charles V. |
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| Church assembly theoretically representing all catholic countries and people, but that ideal was not achieved. |
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| Term applied to English parliamentary laws. |
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| Widespread uprising of German country people protesting economic and social injustices. |
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| Official Roman Catholic agency founded in 1542 to combat international heresy. |
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| Papal statement that allows one to essentially buy his way to heaven. |
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| The Institution of Christian Religion |
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| Calvin's formulation of Christian Doctrine, which became theology for Protestantism. |
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| Members of the society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola and approved by the papacy in 1540. |
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| Eucharistic doctrine espoused by Swiss reformer Zwingli whereby the Eucharist is a memorial of the last supper, but no changes occur in the elements. |
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| Clerical practice of holding more than one church office at a time. |
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| Offices, endowed by laypeople in many German towns, that required holders to give informed, well-prepared sermons. |
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| Calvin's teaching that by God's decree some people are guided to salvation, and others to damnation. |
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| At the Diet of Speyer, princes who favored church reforms along Lutheran lines protested decisions of the Catholic princes; hence, initially, Protestant meant Lutheran, but as other groups appeared, the term Protestant meant all non-Catholic Christians. |
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| Spiritual classic authored by Thomas a Kempis urging Christ as the model of Christian life and simplicity in living. |
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| Lutheran doctrine of the Eucharist that when the bread and wine are consecrated by the priest at mass, they are transformed into the actual Body and Blood of Christ. |
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