The Enlightenment Project and how it impacted Christian theology
$4.95
constitutional law
presentation
published 30/09/2008
review : Completed
level : Advanced
requested 0 times
Typically identified as a movement among eighteenth century philosophers in France, Britain and Germany, The Enlightenment Project, also known as The Age of Enlightenment, or simply The Enlightenment, bridged the seventeenth centurys Age of Reason with the nineteenth centurys Age of Ideology. The Enlightenment consisted of eighteenth century philosophers attempting to extrapolate from ideas put forth in The Age of Reason a means by which Reasons purely logical and scientific approach could be integrated into philosophical terms. Generally attributed to have begun with Sir Isaac Newton in the early eighteenth century, great thinkers across Europe began to attribute serious importance to the work of men such as Descartes, Spinoza, Copernicus and Galileo. If a common thread can be found throughout these works, it is the idea that through logic, research and reason, it is possible for man to investigate and fully understand the world around him.
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- The originally Cartesian idea.
- The shift in general perception of the world as an entity.
- The relationship which currently exists between modern culture and theology.
- The clash between modernism and theology.
- Edmund Burke comments.
- Theology as an answer to all questions - during The Enlightenment.
- Modernism.
- Christianity and the plurality of religions.
- Christianity and feminism.
- Religion in a consumer age.
- Christianity and science.
- Conclusion.
