While the Renaissance was a period of exploration in art, poetry, and literature that focused on emotion, faith, and mystery, the Age of Reason was just that- a focus on science, logic, and solving the seemingly unsolvable with. One must submit oneself to a contract for self-preservation and protection (guaranteed by a being, or other source of military and legal power, to which allegiance and financial support are given). Generally, the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, can be seen as a direct response to the Renaissance. S ocial contract theory (Hobbes) natural existence without a social contract means a state of war of one against all no one would have property, rights, or claims. in some versions: God can intervene in the lives of humans, and provide grace and/or moral guidance. in some versions: God occasionally suspends physical laws in order to revitalize the natural system.ĩ. the highest duty and sole aim of human life is to fulfill the purpose of the natural laws God has crated.Ĩ. God has a preordained plan for the universe all things are predetermined.ħ. the Bible must be analyzed according to reason, and its doctrines should not be made into mysteries.Ħ. reason is in harmony with revelation (or the relation must conform to reason).ĥ. Transcending it as, for example, a watchmaker transcends the watch he or she has made and set in motion.Ĥ. God is in no way immanent in God’s creation, but totally different from it, God has created the unchangeable laws by which the universe is governed.ģ. God as the FIRST CAUSE created the universe.Ģ. It appeared during the early seventeenth century.įor the most part, deism holds to the following beliefs:ġ. The term deism first used in Christianity by the Calvinistsĭuring the later part of the sixteenth century in England, In general, the belief in the existence of God. the study and the application of the rules of inference to arguments or to system of thought.ĭeism (originally from the Greek theos, god translated into Latin as deus) the study of rules of exact reasoning, of the forms of sound or valid thought patterns.Ģ. Or to a well-functioning reason, ordered, systematized, intelligible)ġ. The only censure surely applicable to persons of this age is for the violation of the clausura of nuns, while that for the maltreatment, suadente diabolo, of clerics is probably so.Logic (from Greek, logike, or logikos, that which belongs to intelligent speech In the present discipline, however, persons do not incur these penalties until they reach the age of puberty, unless explicitly included in the decree imposing them. At the age of reason a person is juridically considered eligible to act as witness to a marriage, as sponsor at baptism or confirmation, and as a party to the formal contract of betrothal at this age one is considered capable of receiving extreme unction, of being promoted to first tonsure and minor orders, of being the incumbent of a simple benefice ( beneficium simplex) if the founder of it should have so provided and, lastly, is held liable to ecclesiastical censures. The obligation of Easter Communion literally understood applies to all who have reached "the years of discretion" but according to the practical interpretation of the Church it is not regarded as binding children just as soon as they are seven years old. At this age Christians come under the operation of ecclesiastical laws, such as the precept of assistance at Mass on Sundays and holydays, abstinence from meat on certain days, and annual confessions, should they have incurred mortal sin. The The Age of Reason Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. This, as a rule, happens at the age of seven, or thereabouts, though the use of reason requisite for moral discernment may come before, or may be delayed until notably after, that time. The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible.