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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Section 9 Group 2: The Renaissance and the Reformation


Group Members
 
Jeremy Buma
Nader Issa
Ember Parr
Quint Qualls
Colin Szklarski

In the wonderful sunlight of Monday afternoon, we discussed the effects of the Renaissance and the Reformation on philosophy. We came to the conclusion that the plethora of immediately accessible information of the Renaissance allowed a new window in the history of doubt to be opened up. Now even commoners and those not originally of the philosophical predisposition were suddenly doubting what had always (or so it seemed anyway) been taught to be truth by the Church. Suddenly folks are able to read the Bible in their own home language and discover for themselves what was "truth". This then brings about the Reformation, where all these folks with there new perceptions of what they believe start to challenge what they had initially been taught to believe, and so the linear singularity of Christianity suddenly and drastically splinters into many factions. And thus we have the many denominations (and sub-denominations for that matter) that we have today. Now when someone asks "what are you" theologically speaking, the answer is not always strictly "Christian". Now you are more likely to be given the answer of "Methodist", "Lutheran", "Baptist", and so on. Blame who you like, but I personally blame (and thank, in the same breath actually) Gutenberg and his printing press.

For next class, shall we look at these?
Factual: In what year was Bruno burned at the stake?
Answer: 1600
Discussion: Could it be said, that if Bruno were alive now in our times, that he would look back in time at his accusers/executioners and say to them "I told ya so!"? Might also he be likely to be called a genius or at least a learned man in our time when describing his theories?

1 comment:

  1. What was the topic of Bruno's most famous books?
    Answer: the infinite universe and worlds of 1591, there is no absolute up or down
    Where would we place Bruno on our list of religious options today?

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