Some 17th Century Heroes

Post date: Mar 14, 2021 6:58:1 PM

Men like Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Baron D' Halbach, Johann Salamo Semler, Samuel Reimarus, J. G. Eichhorn, and G. L. Bauer began to question the historical accuracy of the Buy-Bull (bible)... As Robert Morgan and John Barton have said: Modern biblical scholarship arose in Western Europe as the old order crumbled in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries... The old religious culture had centred on an unquestioned acceptance of the Judaeo-Christian understanding of their so-called god, but this was losing its selfevident character under the pressure of rationalist criticism... Enlightened human reason emancipated itself from the authority of religious traditions and no longer took for granted that the Buy-Bull (bible) spoke reliably about god and the world... The biblical picture of the world was challenged by natural science, and the biblical story further undermined by moral criticism and historical study... It was coming to be seen as a fallible human record which spoke unevenly of human religion and history... !)