REL 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Judaizers, Francis Bacon, Matthew Tindal

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: REL 130
• Professor: altman

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Rel130: naturalism, god-given reason, and the quest for natural religion. Tom pain- natural religio(cid:374) (cid:449)as the (cid:862)o(cid:374)l(cid:455) religio(cid:374) that has (cid:374)ot (cid:271)ee(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)ted, a(cid:374)d that has in it every evidence of divine originality, is pure and simple deism. It must have been the first, a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ill pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) (cid:271)e the last, that (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:271)elie(cid:448)es. (cid:863) It was believed that divine providence needed to provide revelation to supplement what humans could not apprehend by their own rational powers, even though these powers of reason were understood to be god-given. O(cid:271)je(cid:272)tifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d the (cid:271)irth of (cid:858)religio(cid:374)(cid:859: protestant vs. catholics conflict during reformation in england, out of this conflict, the idea of there being multiple religions became the first (cid:858)pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)(cid:859) of religio(cid:374). It changed the way we thought about religion: the people of the new world were unprecedented and thus presented unprecedented problems for anyone concerned with religion, both the reformation and new world discoveries shook the self-confidence of.