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Ren & Reformation
GI NYS Vocab Mrs. Z
cancel or invalidate | annul |
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believe that salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth, predestination | Calvinists |
based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe | Heliocentric |
Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church | Heresy |
Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious ones | Humanism |
In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s life | Indulgence |
arguments against indulgences, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517 | 95 Theses |
Person who provides financial support for the arts | Patron |
Idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation | Predestination |
Period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches | Protestant Reformation |
Give up one’s views or beliefs | recant |
Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the 1600s; the word means “rebirth” | Renaissance |
Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis | Scientific Method |
Period in the 1500s and 1600s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation | Scientific Revolution |
Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters | Secular |
French Protestant reformer who preached predestination | John Calvin |
Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe | Copernicus |
Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci |
Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory | Galileo |
German monk who began the Protestant Revolution with the 95 Theses | Martin Luther |
Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo |
English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy | Sir Isaac Newton |
English playwright and poet of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories | Shakespeare |