Chapter 15

This chapter spoke about science and religion. Christendom also known as the Christianity world was divided into Roman Catholics of Western and Central Europe. The Eastern Orthodox was from Eastern Europe and Russia. Science altered ideas about the place of humankind in the cosmos and challenged the teaching of the church. In ways, people believed that this challenged religion. This is still seen to this day. However, these two ideas actually help one another in ways that some people see blind towards. Strayer explains Christianity and how it spread through specific cultures. One of them being that it brought up protestant reformation. The Scientific Revolution (which originated because of Copernicus and his ideas on the solar system) took place in Europe because it birthed a new way of thinking and that consisted of research-based thinking. Many well-known scientists emerged throughout the revolution such as Galileo and Newton.