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It is becoming more pluralistic, more individualistic, and more private.

They no longer feel the need to belong to a local church, or to live their lives under the authority of scripture or to privilege Christianity as the only way to experience a helpful spirituality

The premodern worldview is dominated by religious questions and religious thinkers. These thinkers though of reality as a highly organized, hierarchical structure presided over by God. The greatest concern in the premodern world was not the affairs of this life but the question of where one would spend eternity. It believes that God had invaded human history and had performed various miracles in order to effect salvation for humans. It was further believed that it was only by participating in the grace-imparting ritual of the Church that one could experience salvation. It was further believed that God was very much operative in the world on an ongoing daily basis, guiding the flow of history and exercising history on behalf of his people.

to unlock the secrets of the universe in order to master nature for human benefit and create a better world

Knowledge is certain, objective, and good.

John Dewey

They applied it to the world as a whole.

Human beings became the central focus of enlightenment thought rather than god. Human reason becomes the final arbiter of truth rather than god.

One of the main factors leading to the Enlightenment was the religious strife that had ravaged Europe during the early decades of the 17^th century

Descartes goal was to forge a philosophical method that would yield certain, unambiguous knowledge about the world around us.

Human beings are essentially thinking substances; the human person is essentially an autonomous, rational subject.

The central focus has been the attept to answer the question how do we come to know and how do we know that we know a world “outside” of our experience

Reason Autonomy, nature, harmony, progress

The philosophical environment had become increasingly skeptical of the ability of the human rational mind to gain accurate objective knowledge of the world around it.

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