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A World History of Christianity (1999) 608pp; Hope, Nicholas. German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700-1918 (1999) Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age. Vol. I: The 19th Century in Europe; Background and the Roman Catholic Phase (1958) MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2011) ch 21
They are dry and formally organized because Johnson did not approve of the emotionally charged rhetoric of 17th century preachers at the pulpit. [7] Christian religion and ethics are the primary topic of the sermons with emphasis on marriage, repentance, hardening the heart, charity, pride, wisdom, and compassion.
In the 18th century, Deist philosophers such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were critical of Christianity as a revealed religion. [4] With the Age of Enlightenment, Christianity was criticized by major thinkers and philosophers, such as Voltaire, David Hume, Thomas Paine, and the Baron d'Holbach. [5]
William Paley (July 1743 – 25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian.He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, which made use of the watchmaker analogy.
Analogies of religion Circularity objection to Locke's account of personal identity [ 3 ] Joseph Butler (18 May 1692 O.S. – 16 June 1752 O.S. ) [ 4 ] was an English Anglican bishop , theologian , apologist , and philosopher , born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire ).
The advantage of giving a standard definition of 'Deism' is to distinguish it from Christianity on the one hand and atheism on the other hand. Robert Corfe argues since deism is not organized as a church, and because it teaches self-reliance and to question authority through its intrinsic characteristics, it has little inclination to move toward the status of a highly organized body.
Christianity in the 18th century – 1st great awakening, revivalism, America, French Revolution; Christianity in the 19th century – Modernism, 2nd great awakening, Oxford movement, 1st Vatican Council; Christianity in the 20th century – Soviet Union, Third Reich, Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Fundamentalism, 2nd Vatican Council
18th-century Christian texts (2 C, 64 P) Pages in category "18th-century Christianity" ... European wars of religion; P. Persecution of Huguenots under Louis XV