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Religion During the Enlightenment

Religion During the Enlightenment. PROTESTANTS. LUTHERANS. CALVINISTS. ANGLICANS. OTHER SECTS. PIETISTS. MENNONITES. DISSENTERS. HUGUENOTS. PRESBYTERIANS. LATITUDINARIANS. METHODIST. UNITARIANS. QUAKERS. CONGREGATIONALISTS. BAPTISTS. CATHOLICS. ORTHODOX. NON-ORTHODOX. JESUITS.

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Religion During the Enlightenment

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  1. Religion During the Enlightenment

  2. PROTESTANTS LUTHERANS CALVINISTS ANGLICANS OTHER SECTS PIETISTS MENNONITES DISSENTERS HUGUENOTS PRESBYTERIANS LATITUDINARIANS METHODIST UNITARIANS QUAKERS CONGREGATIONALISTS BAPTISTS

  3. CATHOLICS ORTHODOX NON-ORTHODOX JESUITS JANSENISTS QUIETISTS

  4. PHILOSOPHERS Cartesians-Disciples of Descartes; discarded authoritarianism and argued that only that which is clearly perceived is true Skeptics-Denied the ability of man to know all and the capacity of his reason to penetrate everything

  5. PHILOSOPHERS Cambridge Platonists- Revived the Platonic theory of ideas, particularly the belief that moral ideas are innate in man Utilitarians- held that the happiness of the greatest number is the greatest good

  6. PHILOSOPHERS Deists-argued that the course of nature was sufficient to demonstrate God's existence. Regarded formal religion as superfluous. Their number included Rousseau, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson Atheists-Flatly denied God's existence

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