Ren and Ref Vocab Quiz

English playwright and poet of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories

Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters

Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the 1600s; the word means “rebirth”

Religion that believes the Bible is the source of religious truth, and in the predestination theory

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

List of arguments against indulgences, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517

Name the Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel

Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa; also was an inventor

Name the English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy.

In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s life

Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe

Person who provides financial support for the arts

cancel or invalidate (in the RCC applies to marriage)

Name the intellectual movement during the Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than religious ones.

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

German monk who began the Protestant Revolution with the 95 Theses

Idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation

What term refers to when thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation?

Give up one’s views or beliefs

French Protestant reformer who preached predestination

Which scientific theory is based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe?

Period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches

Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory