populism and nationalism. In France, Chateaubriand? provided the opening shots of Catholic revivalism as he opposed enlightenment's materialism with the "mystery of life," the human need for redemption. In Germany, Schleiermacher? promoted pietism? by claiming that religion was not the institution?, but a mystical piety? [nd sentiment with Christ as the mediating figure raising the human consciousness above the mundane to God's level. In England, [John Wesley]?'s Methodism? split with the [Anglican church]? because of its emphasis on the salvation of the masses as a key to moral reform, which John Wesley saw as the answer to the social problems of the day. All of these were united by a search for something to believe in because of the anxiety of the time. |
populism and nationalism. In France, Chateaubriand? provided the opening shots of Catholic revivalism as he opposed enlightenment's materialism with the "mystery of life," the human need for redemption. In Germany, Schleiermacher? promoted pietism? by claiming that religion was not the institution?, but a mystical piety? [nd sentiment with Christ as the mediating figure raising the human consciousness above the mundane to God's level. In England, [John Wesley]?'s Methodism? split with the [Anglican church]? because of its emphasis on the salvation of the masses as a key to moral reform, which John Wesley saw as the answer to the social problems of the day. All of these were united by a search for something to believe in because of the anxiety of the time. |
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