Ironically — given that Locke is now considered a major Enlightenment thinker — the Second Treatise was not widely read in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and while many intellectuals saw his theories as important, many others dismissed them
He should have been read about more often because like I said before, he was the best enlightenment thinker that was there.
John Locke was one of the most influential philosophers and political theorists of seventeenth-century England.
I honestly think that Locke was the best Enlightenment thinker that ever came to be. He had great ideas and thoughts and views that in my personal opinion, made him the best there was.
To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I see, is black, if the Hierarchical Church so decides it, believing that between Christ our Lord, the Bridegroom, and the Church, His Bride, there is the same Spirit which governs and directs us for the salvation of our souls.
This rule is an interesting one to say the least. They got to be right in pretty much everything and that is honestly an insane thing to think about.
He began writing the Spiritual Exercises in 1522 and later founded the Society of Jesus, or Jesuit Order.
What were the Spiritual exercises that he wrote and what was the Society of Jesus?
This idea of our great knowledge opened the way to us for sowing the seed of religion in their minds.
The Japanese were more open to believing the religion of the Jesuits one they explained many other scientific wonders to them.
All of these sects observe a wonderful silence about the creation of the world and of souls. They all speak of abodes of the virtuous and of the wicked; but not one gives any explanation of the nature of the place assigned to the good, nor by whose power it is that the souls of the wicked are cast down to hell.
The Japanese did not believe they had any one creator or higher power presiding over them.
And they say women are as badly off if they neglect the five precepts. For they say that each woman, on account of her monthly courses, is covered with more sins than all men put together, and that thus so foul a creature can hardly be saved. They go on to say that there is some hope even for women of escaping from the prison of hell, if they give a great deal more than the men to the bonzes.
It is so crazy how inferior women were seen back then, and simply due to their nature and things beyond their control, they were doomed to go to hell.
They prize and honour all that has to do with war, and all such things, and there is nothing of which they are so proud as of weapons adorned with gold and silver.
It seems that the Japanese were always prepared for a fight.
Many of these rules are rejections of “evangelical” (Protestant) theological positions as well as the recent moral failings of the medieval Church.
Ignatius thought that a lot of the Protestant rules should be changed.
For Ignatius, the battle between God and the Devil is an interior struggle for the soul of the believer.
Ignatius seems to have a similar mindset to Martin Luther in that he believes the struggles of sin are internal.
On May 25, 1521, the Diet of Worms issued the Edict of Worms, declaring Luther a heretic and an outlaw.
What was the Edict of Worms?
Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses called for religious reform and unintentionally sparked a powder keg that led to the Protestant Reformation, the sixteenth-century movement that rejected many of the teachings of Catholicism.
I really wonder why he had ninety-five Theses. That is a big number of Theses to have and if he was still here today, I would ask him why he had so many
Luther maintains that when people die, they are released from all earthly penalties as embodied in canon law. The penalty of purgatory is imposed not by earthly law but by the person’s own fear, even despair, brought about by
Luther does not think that purgatory is a real thing that all people must face when they die.
According to this view, salvation in heaven is an unconditional gift of God’s love and grace. A person receives it through faith alone and acceptance of Jesus Christ as the source of salvation; it cannot be “earned” through the performance of good works, for that would imply that a well-behaved, charitable atheist could be admitted to heaven.
I really like this passage because I am a Christian myself, and I completely agree with Luther. The old ways of thinking were unachievable and unrealistic. No one can ever earn their way into Heaven or be worthy of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made.
Religious wars erupted that were not to cease until the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.
When Luther made his 95 theses, I wonder if he could have predicted the outcome that would have.
One traditional arrangement that enlightened thinkers usually did not question was male domination.
Why did the enlightened thinkers not question male domination? that seems to be a key issue in today's world and it is shocking that back then, they did not question it/
Although some were priests or monks themselves, enlightened thinkers also questioned the moral ideas of Christianity.
why did they question the ideas of Christianity?
succour
assistance and support in times of hardship and distress