Chapter 6 Flashcards
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This religious movement of the 1700s was in the colonies largely a response to the Age of reason and attempted to end spiritual lethargy and return the focus to God’s sovereignty.
Great Awakening
This refers to the 18th century philosophical movement (which began in Europe) that stressed reasoning and the scientific method
Enlightenment
This Puritan minister played a pivotal role in the Great Awakening and is perhaps most famous for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
This “philosophical religion” to put it oxymoronically, taught that God was the universal “Clockmaker” who created the world but left man to manage the day to day operations of the universe.
Deism
Originally from France, he explored in his Letter from an American Farmer and explored what has come to be known as the American Dream in his writings.
Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur
in addition to his well known role as on of the American founding fathers he also wrote under pseudonym such as silence dogged and authored Poor Richard’s almanac.
Benjamin Franklin
This English philosopher and author of two treatises of government as well as essay on human understanding believed that men had the right to overthrow an unjust government
John Locke
This English philosopher who wrote leviathan famously argued that government is a positive good because life in a state of nature is nasty, poor, solitary, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
From England, this anglican preacher who helped to spread the Great Awakening in the American colonies; he, along with John Wesley, was also one of the founders of Methodism
George Whitefield
this word mean living forever or not subject to death or dying
immortality
this latin phrase/term mean blank slate or clean tablet
Tabula Rosa
although this word meant devoutly religious it usually connotes practicing faith in a hypocritical fashion.
pious
born in England he published principia mathematica in 1687 and mastered physics with his famous three laws of motion
Sir Isaac Newton
this word means traveling from place to place, especially to perform a religious duty
itinerant
This word refers to that which can not be touched or perceived
intangible
this bloodless coup of 1688/1689 in England meant the rise of constitutional monarchy as the last of the Stuart dynasty was outed and William and Mary agreed to limitations on their authority with the Bill of Rights
Glorious Revolution
this grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, sometimes called “Pope” attempted to reform puritanism by de-emphasizing “saving grace”
Solomon Stoddard
Named for the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius this free will teaching was the opposite of Calvinism and predestination of the elect
Arminianism
this polish born astronomer and author of on the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres made the first serious challenge to geocentrism and published his famous work the same year that he died
Copernicus
this Italian born author of the starry messenger is sometimes credited with inventing the telescope; he was also tried before the inquisition for his support of heliocentrism
Galileo Galilei
this Ivy League institution was founded in 1746 as the college of new jersey and renamed in 1896
Princeton
founded as King’s College in 1754 in New York and renamed in 1784, this ivy league institution is the fifth oldest in the untied states
Columbia
Founded in 1764 this Rhode Island institution is the seventh oldest in the United States
Brown
Chartered in 1766 and originally known as Queen’s College this institution was initially a private university affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church and open only to male students
Rutgers
Found in 1693, this is the second oldest institution of higher learned in the U.S.
William and Mary
