The Renaissance and Reformation

A place of punishment where souls pay for past sins.

• Purgatory

• Indulgence

• Thesis

• Recant

A release from all or part of punishment for sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory after death.

• Purgatory

• Indulgence

• Thesis

• Recant

A position or idea a person puts forward and is willing to prove through argument.

• Purgatory

• Indulgence

• Thesis

• Recant

To withdraw a statement or position formally and publicly.

• Purgatory

• Indulgence

• Thesis

• Recant

An intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history.

• Humanism

• Heretic

• Predestination

• Popular Sovereignty

A person who opposes or does not conform to established religious teachings.

• Humanism

• Heretic

• Predestination

• Popular Sovereignty

The belief that God has determined in advance who will be saved (the elect) and who will be condemned (the reprobate).

• Humanism

• Heretic

• Predestination

• Popular Sovereignty

The right to govern through the consent of the people.

• Humanism

• Heretic

• Predestination

• Popular Sovereignty

A soldier who fights primarily for pay.

• Mercenary

• Republic

• Rhetoric

• Vernacular

A form of government in which the leader is not a king and certain citizens have the right to vote.

• Mercenary

• Republic

• Rhetoric

• Vernacular