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The Age of Reason and Revival: Waking Up To The Great Awakenings - Church Then & Now E16
Mar 06, 2023
Season 2
Episode 16
Landmark Church
Join the conversation about how the Age of Reason led to the need for revival. Ethan Hoover & Matthew Maher discuss the impact of "reason", revivalism, and the difference between the two Great Awakenings.
Show Notes:
- Intro
- Church, podcast, & life update
- Brief recap on last episode
- John Vs. Jake: The Age-Old Debate
- The Age of Enlightenment (The Age of Reason)
- The separation of mind & feelings
- Rationalism (Mind) Vs. Emotionalism (Feelings)
- René Decartes
- John Locke
- Immanuel Kantt
- Gnosticism at play again (just under a different guise)
- The danger of intellectualism is that we can grow in knowledge but forget the source of all knowledge (God)
- Faith & filters
- God gave us the ability to discover & think
- “If you don’t have the Holy Spirit illuminating truth, you will end up being a very smart fool.”
- What was the impact of the Age of Enlightenment on religion/Christianity?
- Anti-supernaturalism
- Deism
- Biblical Criticism
- Why did we need a revival?
- We needed to come back to the Word of God, which brings the mind of man and the emotions of man together
- The Age of Reason transitions to the Age of Revivalism
- The First & Second Great Awakenings
- The First Great Awakening
- A Calvinistic framework
- Calvinists believe in predestination
- Sermons were preached and let it rest
- The Second Great Awakening
- An Arminianism framework
- Altar calls
- Arminian’s believe “you’ve got to do the work”
- Asbury Revival
- Is it the third great awakening?
- “Society will reap the benefits of the fruit of repentance.”
- The Age of Reason & the Age of Revival led to the American Revolution
- John Locke played an influential part in our Founding Father’s thought process and approach to how the United States of America was formed
- Outro
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