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Renaissance and Ref.
Renaissance and Reformation vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | a great flowering of culture, toward the end of the Middle Ages, that began in Italy and spread throughout Europe |
| classical | In the context of the Renaissance, this term refers to the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome |
| humanism | a philosophy that emphasizes the worth and potential of all individuals and tries to balance religious faith with belief in the power of the human mind |
| patron | a person who supports the arts or other activities by supplying money for them |
| city-state | an independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory |
| secular | relating to earthly life rather than to religion or spiritual matters |
| Johannes Gutenberg | German inventor of the printing press |
| printing press | used movable type made from metal to print more materials faster and less expensively; invented by Johannes Gutenberg |
| Reformation | a reform movement of the 1500s that split the Catholic Church and led to the creation of the Protestant religion |
| indulgence | an official church pardon that relieved Catholics from punishment for sins |
| heresy | holding religious beliefs that contradict the teachings of the church |
| excommunication | expulsion from a church or religious community |
| Protestant | a Christian who separated from the Catholic Church during the Reformation; today, any member of a church founded on the principles of the Reformation |
| denomination | a religious group or movement within a larger religion sharing a common interpretation of that religion |
| Counter-Reformation | a movement to revive and defend Catholicism in response to the Reformation |
| Martin Luther | a German priest who began the first Protestant church by breaking away from the Catholic Church in the early 1500s |
| Lutheranism | a Protestant church that emphasized study of the Bible and salvation through faith alone--not by works, started by Martin Luther |
| John Calvin | a French humanist who started a Protestant church in Geneva, Switzerland in the late 1530s |
| Calvinism | A protestant church that believed in predestination, the belief that the fate of each soul was decided by God at the beginning of time |
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