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V. The Modern World (1800 AD-Onwards) (Enlightenment: Natural Science)
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V. THE MODERN WORLD (1800 AD-ONWARDS)
The conflict of the Reformation period no sooner had settled down than Christian thinkers were faced with more challenges that would shake their very assumptions to the core doctrines. Christians had to evaluate not only the traditional doctrines of the church but their understanding of the nature of Christianity itself.
1. Enlightenment
Like the Renaissance, the Enlightenment was an all-encompassing trend of thought that is very hard to define. In many ways, it is still going on.
(1) The Natural Science
1) The Enlightenment grew out of the scientific and philosophical advances that were made in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2) The natural sciences were becoming a major intellectual and cultural force in the hands of men like Carolus Linnaeus, the biologist, and Isac Newton, the mathematician and physics.
3) The scientists believed in God, certainly, but they believed in him as a sort of last-ditch scientific hypothesis to be appealed to when nothing else could be found. He was a "God of gap" used to plug the holes in scientific knowledge. Modern science emerged in the seventeenth century, in soil watered by Christianity.
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