THE 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Second Vatican Council, Deism, Protestant Reformation

• School: St. John's University
• Department: Theology and Religious Studies
• Course: THE 1000C
• Professor: Maione

Document Summary

Copernicus (1543: geocentric, earth centered, aristotle (bible) Galileo (1610: creation of telescope, heliocentric, sun centered, leads up to enlightenment, science. Middle ages: scholastic, attempt to explain faith through reason, aquinas. Enlightenment nature: explain through reason, is a reaction to the thoughts of the middle ages. In b/w of enlightenment and modernity, is the romanticism: there is knowledge other than reason, such as wisdom or beauty. Skepticism & secularism: faith is dropped from the equation but not entirely gone, modernity, post-modernity. Sir isaac newton: the father of modern physical science, he was the climax of the enlightenment, when principa (l. ) principles of natural philosophy. Includes his laws of motion: not an atheists but a deists, to create the laws that god has left in nature. Discover his laws that he has left in nature. Voltaire is optimistic: imprisoned because he didn"t respect political authority, he penned a piece about the government, he insults a young french noblemen.