The Age of Reason & Revival: 1648 - 1789 Flashcards
Pascal
Blaise Pascal - 1623 - 1662. French Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, Catholic Theologian.
Philip Spener
1635 - 1705. German Lutheran theologian who founded Pietism.
Isaac Newton
1642-1726/27. English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author.
English Act of Toleration
- Allowed for freedom of worship to nonconformists who rejected transubstantiation. (Protestants, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc.)
John Locke
1632 - 1704. English philosopher and physician, influential Enlightenment thinkers, Father of Liberalism.
Moravians
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.
Joseph Butler
1692 - 1752. English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. Critiqued Diesm, egoism, and the theory of personal identity.
George Whitfield
1714 - 1770 - Anglican Cleric and evangelist. One of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Was part of the Great Awakening in 1740.
John Wesley
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.
Voltaire
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.
Isaac Backus
1724 - 1806. Leading Baptist minister during the American Revolution. Campaigned against state-established churches in New England.
