Reformation/Renaissance Vocab Review

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To cancel or invalidate

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annul

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Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters.

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secular

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They believed that salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth. John Calvin believed in predestination or divine right.

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Calvinism

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Period in the 1500 and 1600s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation.

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Scientific Revolution

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Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis.

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Scientific Method

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This was based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe.

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Heliocentric

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Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church.

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Heresy

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Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the 1600s: the word means "rebirth"

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Renaissance

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Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious ones.

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Humanism

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In the RCC, pardon for sins committed during a person's life.

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Indulgence