My first two books, Faith and Reason (Christopher, 1962) and From Puritanism to Platonism in Seventeenth Century England (Martinus Nijhoff, 1968), make this point. (religion-online.org)
Most memorable is the first time Mercèdes emerges from the darkness of the museum entry into the bright sunlight, her face momentarily illuminated against a pure black backing and framed by the camera in Piñeiro's own refiguration of seventeenth century Dutch portraiture. (sensesofcinema.com)
It has been a continuous challenge to the modern worldview derived from seventeenth century mechanism, eighteenth - century rationalism, nineteenth - century positivism and twentieth - century nihilism. (religion-online.org)