Protestant Reformation

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Protestant Reformation

• Martin Luther
• 99 theses
• Lutheranism

• John Calvin
• Predestination
• God has already chosen those who will receive
  salvation BEFORE BIRTH
• Calvinism/Presbyterianism

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The EnlightenmentScientific reasoning

• Copernicus
• Earth revolves around the Sun

• Isaac Newton
• Used math and physics to explain the movement of
  planets

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Development ofNatural Rights

• John Locke was the most often followed/cited
• Individuals and society could be changed
• How?
• Through education and rational thought

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More importantly

• People could change government through the
  decisions of the majority
• That is Locke argued that it wasnt Gods will
  that monarchs rule-which was called absolutism

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Cotton Mather

• Perhaps the most important contribution this
  gentleman made was the smallpox inoculation

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Ben Franklin

• Deist One who believes that God created the
  universe and left it to be run according to
  natural rights
• Most of Franklin's beliefs can be found in Poor
  Richards Almanac

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Pietism and the Great AwakeningA reawakening of
religious beliefs

• The most often followed/cited individual that
  followed these beliefs was Jonathan Edwards
• He preached that men and women were helpless,
  that they were completely dependent on God
• Tis only the power and mere pleasure of God that
  holds you up

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Colonial followers

• Old Lights
• Condemned the more radical Pietism believers-the
  new lights
• These were ones that cried out, fainted, and
  convulsed at meetings
• Thus, just as the Protestant Reformation saw a
  separation of the church in Europe, the Great
  Awakening saw a separation of the church in the
  colonies