Chapter 15 Flashcards
Horace Mann
a brilliant and idealistic graduate of Brown University; as secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he campaigned effectively for more and better school houses, longer school terms, high pay for the teachers who worked in the schools, and an expanded curriculum
Brigham
Follows Jospeh Smith in leading the Mormons
Charles Grandison Finney
the greatest of the revival preachers; Finney abandoned being a lawyer to become an evangelist after a conversion experience as a young man
Huge crowds influences women to pray
Unitarians I
Unitarians held that God existed in only one person and no in the orthodox trinity
Deism
Deists relied on reason rather than revelation, on science rather thank the Bible; they rejected the concept of original sin and denied Christ’s divinity; yet deists believed in a Supreme Being who created a knowable universe (humans and moral behavior)
Joseph smith
Founder of Mormons
Wrote the Book of Later Day saints