1. (The Enlightenment) [1650-1800]
Topic #9: Age of Reason
(The Enlightenment) [ ]
I. Characteristics
A. The Church:
Cold Orthodoxy
Respectability

2. B. The Broader Culture Rationalism Topic #9: Age of Reason
I. Characteristics
B. The Broader Culture
Rationalism

3. New Humanism Topic #9: Age of Reason I. Characteristics
B. Broader Culture
New Humanism

4. Topic #9: Age of Reason
I. Characteristics
B. Broader Culture
Doctrine of Progress
From the state of nature, where life is “solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short.” – Thomas Hobbes
To “civilization” governed by reason

5. Opposition to Christianity Deism
Topic #9: Age of Reason
I. Characteristics
B. Broader Culture
Opposition to Christianity
Deism

6. C. Causes of the Growth of Rationalism
Topic #9: Age of Reason
I. Characteristics
C. Causes of the Growth of Rationalism
Secularization of the Renaissance
Mother & child instead of Madonna & child
“Birth of Venus” – scene from mythology instead of from Bible
Portraiture instead of paintings of the saints.

7. Religious Wars Topic #9: Age of Reason I. Characteristics
C. Causes of the Growth of Rationalism
Religious Wars

8. Separation of theology and philosophy
Topic #9: Age of Reason
I. Characteristics
C. Causes of the Growth of Rationalism
Separation of theology and philosophy
Philosophy serves revelation.
Philosophy replaces revelation.

9. Modern Science Isaac Newton Topic #9: Age of Reason I. Characteristics
C. Reasons for the Growth of Rationalism
Modern Science
Isaac Newton

10. II. Response in Germany: Pietism A. Philip Spener (1635-1705)
Topic #9: Age of Reason
II. Response in Germany: Pietism
A. Philip Spener ( )

11. B. August Hermann Franke (1663-1727)
Topic #9: Age of Reason
II. Response in Germany: Pietism
B. August Hermann Franke ( )
Orphanage in Halle

12. C. Pietism and Missions Danish-Halle Mission
Topic #9: Age of Reason
II. Response in Germany: Pietism
C. Pietism and Missions
Danish-Halle Mission
Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg – first Protestant missionary to India.

13. Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
Topic #9: Age of Reason
II. Response in Germany: Pietism
C. Pietism and Missions
Moravian Missions
Moravians
Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf ( )

14. Bishop Cornelius Jansen
Topic #9: Age of Reason
III. Response in France: Jansenism
Cornelius Jansen ( )
Blaise Pascal ( )
Bishop Cornelius Jansen
Blaise Pascal

15. Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752)
Topic #9: Age of Reason
IV. Response in England
Bishop Joseph Butler ( )

16. V. Response in England & America: Revival
Topic #9: Age of Reason
V. Response in England & America: Revival
Great Awakening
Began in New Jersey
Jonathan Edwards

17. Evangelical Revival The “Holy Club” George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Topic #9: Age of Reason
V. Response in England and America: Revival
Evangelical Revival
The “Holy Club”
George Whitefield ( )

18. Evangelical Revival John Wesley (1703-1791) Charles Wesley (1708-1788)
Topic #9: Age of Reason
V. Response in England and America: Revival
Evangelical Revival
John Wesley ( )
Charles Wesley ( )
John Wesley
Wesley followed Whitefield and preached outdoors.
Wesley’s genius was organizing his converts.
Charles Wesley