Sentences with phrase «eighteenth century rationalism»

According to Wright, the Puritan emphasis on the right of individual interpretation of scripture ironically paved the way for eighteenth century rationalism.

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Postmodernism challenges modernism which can be said to have begun with seventeenth - century mechanism, petrified with eighteenth - century rationalism, nineteenth - century positivism and twentieth - century nihilism.

The gulf widened enormously with Enlightenment rationalism in the eighteenth century.

In more voluminous and also widely read writings Lamennais presented a fresh apologetic for the Christian faith as against eighteenth - century rationalism, criticized Gallicanism (the traditional belittling of Papal authority in the French Church), and stood for the Papacy as a safeguard of the faith.

In Denmark eighteenth - century rationalism was challenged.