Reformation/Renaissance Vocab Review

To cancel or invalidate

• secular
• heresy
• annul
• recant

Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters.

• secular
• recant
• predestination
• patron

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.

• Reformation
• Patron
• Calvinism
• Heresy

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

• Scientific Revolution
• Scientific Method
• Protestant Revolution
• Humanism

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

• Predestination
• Protestant Reformation
• Scientific Method
• Patron

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

• Heliocentric
• Humanism
• Indulgence
• Patron

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

• Heresy
• Renaissance
• Recant
• Humanism

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

• Calvinism
• Humanism
• Reformation
• Renaissance

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

• Patron
• Indulgences
• Humanism
• Renaissance

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

• Patron
• Indulgence
• Recant
• 95 Theses