Search results
1 day ago · John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
1 day ago · James Moore examines how 18th-century thinkers thought about ancient mythology and its importance for Enlightenment efforts to create a universal theory of religion (pp. 137–67). This is a particularly important topic, which has been unfortunately rather neglected, and Moore offers here a timely contribution.
2 days ago · This anthropocentric perspective of Descartes' work, establishing human reason as autonomous, provided the basis for the Enlightenment's emancipation from God and the Church. According to Martin Heidegger, the perspective of Descartes' work also provided the basis for all subsequent anthropology.
4 days ago · Gary Steward’s Review of 2000 YEARS OF CHRIST’S POWER, VOLUME 5: THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND AWAKENING, by Nick Needham. Published on June 3, 2024 by Eugene Ho. Christian Focus, 2023 | 664 pages. Amazon ( Hardcover )
5 days ago · No, soy disrupts hormones – don’t eat tofu! It’s enough to make one wish for simpler days, but Eating the Enlightenment reminds us that those simpler days likely never existed. What experts shaped enlightened eating in the 18th century?
5 days ago · Jonathan Edwards, greatest theologian and philosopher of British American Puritanism, stimulator of the religious revival known as the ‘Great Awakening,’ and one of the forerunners of the age of Protestant missionary expansion in the 19th century.
People also ask
Why is the Enlightenment important?
What are the religious origins of the Enlightenment?
Did the Enlightenment result in history and criticism?
What role did Roman history play in the Enlightenment?
5 days ago · It suggests that the ‘religious Enlightenment’ in Scotland grew up from ‘enthusiastic’ theological roots, and sought to cultivate a ‘moral culture’ which conduced to national spiritual regeneration rather than merely to social peace, politeness or the Anglicisation of Scottish culture.
