Chapter 16 Stayer ways of the world Flashcards
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336406953 | Bhakti | Hindu devotional movement that flourish in the early modern era, emphasizing music, dance, poetry, and rituals as means by which to achieve direct union with the divine. | 0 | |
336406954 | Copernicus | Polish mathematician and astronomer who was the first to argue for the existence of a heliocentric cosmos | 1 | |
336406955 | Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection and continued to be seen by many as a threat to revealed religious truth | 2 | |
336406956 | Deism | Belief in divine being who created the cosmos but who does not intervene directly in human affairs | 3 | |
336406957 | European Enlightenment | Europe intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applies the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open-mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society | 4 | |
336406958 | Galileo Galilei | Italian astronmoer who further developed the ideas of Copernicus and whose work was eventually suppressed by the Catholic Church | 5 |