Chapter 15 (Religion and Science)









  • Christianity where first spread to Asians, Africans, and Native Americans then modern scientific outlook which challenged Western Christianity
  • The Christian world was divided between the Roman Catholics of Western and Central Europe And the Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe and Russia 
  • Luther came to a new understanding of Salivation: he believed that faith came alone , faith was a free gift of god 
  • The Scientific Revolution was a revolution because it changed the understanding of the universe
  • Nicolaus Copernicus argument was the "at the middle of all things lies the sun" and that the earth like the other planets revolved around it . The earth was no longer unique or the center of God's attention 

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