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This 5 page report discusses the existence of religion in the Europe of the 1600s. Throughout all aspects of faith during the time, the element of transformation and religious heroism played a key role and also supported justifications of violent “Christian” intervention throughout the world. The 17th century also provided the foundation from which the philosophy of the Enlightenment was launched. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a number of aspects. For example, according to Barbour (1997) for King Charles the heroism of the English church was a principal concern. The Spanish, Dutch, and French
saw it as a justification for much of their colonial activity - saving the savages while conquering new worlds for the glory of country. Throughout all aspects of faith,
the element of transformation and religious heroism played a key role and also supported justifications of violent "Christian" intervention throughout the world. "Heroic virtue" served as a hallmark of individual
greatness and proof that the church was being restored to its rightful magnificence. Ironically, it was also a time when the Puritans were gaining prominence in society and they had
no use or need for such displays and primarily wanted uniformity, decency, and spirituality. Of course, such thinking led to its own form of "heroic virtue" and violence associated
with it. In the late sixteenth century and well into the seventeenth, the European institutions of monarchy and the nation-state were intimately tied
to religion and peoples hopes for personal salvation. However repellent and violent the wars of religion were, the seventeenth century, in terms of what eurocentric civilization embraced and came to
believe, truly was the Age of Reason in that it caused the people to consider their existence more carefully and in a spiritual framework. It was a time in
which, as "modern" humanity stood on the threshold of making remarkable discoveries of the universes immensity, it also found an increased awareness and importance related to religious and philosophical meaning.
Common People Of course, religious issues and concerns carried a different import for the commoner of 17th century Europe than it did for members of the aristocracy or those of
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