18th Century Religion
THESIS STATEMENT: This video intends to interpret the supremacy of the church during the 18th century that lead the certain part of the elites (writers and philosophers) to bring justice to the neglected and defenceless people through the works of fiction.
SUPPORTING POINT 1: The supremacy of church that halt the rights of society
In European society in the early of 17th and 18th century, the citizen inherited two things – religion and social class status.
In western countries at that time, Catholic churches have their own power that influenced people until they successfully monopolised the moral behaviour of the people (rules and regulations of how people should act and behave)
They (the church & elite group) were hypocrite ⎯ they acted so …show more content…
The weaker groups were treated worse than they deserved.
People lose hope on the political and church leaders that was supposed to be protecting them and they felt betrayed by them.
SUPPORTING POINT 2: Intellectual and rational thinking
Occurs between 17th to 18th centuries where changes in the way of thinking happen, especially in relation to the aspects of religion that contribute to the development of art and literature, as well as philosophy in the European world.
The concept of ‘reason’ and deism are also centred in the Enlightenment Age.
This resulting to a certain part of the elites such as writers and philosophers made a reaction to bring justice to the neglected and defenceless people by starting to write the literary works.. This anger and frustration ushered into the Age of Enlightenment.
The arrival of Age of Enlightenment have given birth to three major revolutions which are French Revolution, American Revolution and Industrial Revolution in 18th Century.
The age of enlightenment gave rise to another way of thinking that called …show more content…
Examples of writers who contribute to secularism.
James Wood in his introduction to The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief (2000), Wood is confidently secular in a way that might be taken as representative of much modern thinking about literature.
In identifying modern fiction as “the enemy of superstition, the slayer of religions,” Wood presumes that whole categories of modern literature — where the novel is held to be the most important — contribute to a broad secularizing project in accord with the aims of liberal nation-state planners, and modern science and social theory. It is a position for which one can find ample support.
Examples of writers who had contributed
Prominent names such as Francis Bacon, Rosseau, Voltaire and John Locke are nothing but well-known for their respectful and prolific writings that represent the voice of society which craved for intellectual and social changes in their life.
Voltaire -a famous 18th century writer. He was known to hate religion as he claimed it to be destructive for mankind. He also has a sceptical view on Christianity and the
SUPPORTING POINT 1: The supremacy of church that halt the rights of society
In European society in the early of 17th and 18th century, the citizen inherited two things – religion and social class status.
In western countries at that time, Catholic churches have their own power that influenced people until they successfully monopolised the moral behaviour of the people (rules and regulations of how people should act and behave)
They (the church & elite group) were hypocrite ⎯ they acted so …show more content…
The weaker groups were treated worse than they deserved.
People lose hope on the political and church leaders that was supposed to be protecting them and they felt betrayed by them.
SUPPORTING POINT 2: Intellectual and rational thinking
Occurs between 17th to 18th centuries where changes in the way of thinking happen, especially in relation to the aspects of religion that contribute to the development of art and literature, as well as philosophy in the European world.
The concept of ‘reason’ and deism are also centred in the Enlightenment Age.
This resulting to a certain part of the elites such as writers and philosophers made a reaction to bring justice to the neglected and defenceless people by starting to write the literary works.. This anger and frustration ushered into the Age of Enlightenment.
The arrival of Age of Enlightenment have given birth to three major revolutions which are French Revolution, American Revolution and Industrial Revolution in 18th Century.
The age of enlightenment gave rise to another way of thinking that called …show more content…
Examples of writers who contribute to secularism.
James Wood in his introduction to The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief (2000), Wood is confidently secular in a way that might be taken as representative of much modern thinking about literature.
In identifying modern fiction as “the enemy of superstition, the slayer of religions,” Wood presumes that whole categories of modern literature — where the novel is held to be the most important — contribute to a broad secularizing project in accord with the aims of liberal nation-state planners, and modern science and social theory. It is a position for which one can find ample support.
Examples of writers who had contributed
Prominent names such as Francis Bacon, Rosseau, Voltaire and John Locke are nothing but well-known for their respectful and prolific writings that represent the voice of society which craved for intellectual and social changes in their life.
Voltaire -a famous 18th century writer. He was known to hate religion as he claimed it to be destructive for mankind. He also has a sceptical view on Christianity and the