The Age of Reason & Revival: 1648 - 1789

Question 1

Pascal

Answer 1

Blaise Pascal - 1623 - 1662. French Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, Catholic Theologian.

Question 2

Philip Spener

Answer 2

1635 - 1705. German Lutheran theologian who founded Pietism.

Question 3

Isaac Newton

Answer 3

1642-1726/27. English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author.

Question 4

English Act of Toleration

Answer 4

1688. Allowed for freedom of worship to nonconformists who rejected transubstantiation. (Protestants, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc.)

Question 5

John Locke

Answer 5

1632 - 1704. English philosopher and physician, influential Enlightenment thinkers, Father of Liberalism.

Question 6

Moravians

Answer 6

Moravian Church. Dating back to the Bohemian Reformation. Name is from the exiles who fled Bohemia to Saxony in 1722 to escape the Counter-Reformation, establishing the Christian community of Hernnhut.

Question 7

Joseph Butler

Answer 7

1692 - 1752. English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. Critiqued Diesm, egoism, and the theory of personal identity.

Question 8

George Whitfield

Answer 8

1714 - 1770 - Anglican Cleric and evangelist. One of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Was part of the Great Awakening in 1740.

Question 9

John Wesley

Answer 9

1703 - 1791. English cleric, theologian, and evangelist. Leader of a revival movement in the Church of English known as Methodism. Wesley embraced Arminian doctrines. Methodists became leaders in many social issues such as abolition of slavery and prison reform.

Question 10

Voltaire

Answer 10

1694 - 1778. French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Famous for his wit and criticism of Christianity, esp. the Roman Catholic Church, and slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

Question 11

Isaac Backus

Answer 11

1724 - 1806. Leading Baptist minister during the American Revolution. Campaigned against state-established churches in New England.