Compare and contrast the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. Which to you is the most attractive approach to knowledge? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER
Enlightenment: secular thought; rationalism; natural laws govern human behavior and the universe; faith in progress; impressed with scientific experimentation; Deist religion
Great Awakening: religious enthusiasm; faith in the centrality of God in human existence; belief in an intrusive God; importance of repentance, conversion, and God’s saving grace; appeal to the senses
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