Unit 4 Vocabulary

3. relating to a Christian Church or denomination governed by elders
6. a person who gives financial support or other support to a person, organization, or activity
7. a German theologian who led the Reformation; he believed salvation was granted on the basis of faith
9. the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
12. a brilliant Italian polymath, natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who
14. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of Gods or other gods.
16. the members of a Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Loyola and St. Xavier

1. a work of writing by Martin Luther that expressed his beliefs about the Church
2. a religious movement that began in the 16th century
4. an Italian Renaissance political philosopher, statesman, and secretary of the state of Florence
5. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in measuring, observing, experimenting, and more
8. one who baptizes again
10. an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system (the planets orbit around the Sun)
11. the drastic change in scientific thought during the 16th and 17th centuries
13. a German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motion
15. the revival of art and literature under influence of classic models
17. an imagined state of things where everything is perfect