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 though faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth. John Calvin believed in predestination or divine right. What is this belief system called? Options: Reformation, Patron, Calvinism, Heresy

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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