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| the right to govern yourself. One of the ideas of political thought and basic human rights that came out of the work of the enlightenment thinkers |
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| The man who started the enlightenment by questioning the authority of revealed truth. Decided to use only human reason to see what he could know and surmised he is a being that thinks: "cogito ergo sum" |
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giving church offices to family members - a complaint Luther had against the Church
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| Pluralism holding multiple bishoprics |
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| another of Luther's complaints |
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| selling old pieces of wook or bone and passing them off as holy relics - a part of the true cross, or a chip of a bone of a saint. - another of Luther's complaints |
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| just what it says - selling dispensations from requirements of church laws - another of Luther's complaints |
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| the difference between pre and post-enlightment thought. Before the enlightenment, the Bible - the revealed word of God - was the source of all knowledge. After the enlightenment, human reason was the source, as it is today. |
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killing a king as the English did with Charles II during the English Civil War. Part of the process of making England into a Protestant country.
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