Chapter 10, 5 Terms Flashcards
English church members who separated from the Anglican Church over several issues, including the degree of adornment in the church’s worship. (Separatists preferred simple worship; Anglican worship tended to be ornate.) Most Separatists became Congregationalists.
Separatists
Pietist descendants of the Bohemian Protestants, who derived from Jan Hus’ followers. Today, they are known as the United Brethren.
Moravian Brethren
Eighteenth-century Christians who emphasized experiencing God’s presence through intense, personal prayer and Bible study.
Pietists
An intellectual movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that focused on human reason, words, science, natural law, and the created order.
The Enlightenment
From the Latin deus (“deity”). A movement that searched for a universal foundation on which all religions could agree. Most deists believed that a divine being had created the universe and natural
laws. However, they also believed that this divine being was revealed to humanity primarily through the
created order.
Deism