Or is it non-existant?
2007-11-25 11:46:22 · 13 answers · asked by Psychedelic Pantheist 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
None at all.
Enlightenment means discovering the Truth, and that's the LAST thing christianity wants for believers.
2007-11-25 11:52:40 · answer #1 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One should probably ask what role has Christianity played in the age of enlightenment?
The question is like the cart before the horse. Both seemed to happen at the same time.
At the millennium A&E Network had a countdown of the 100 most importent people in the in the last 1,000 years.
Number 1 was Johanes Guttenburg with the invention of movable type. Number 2 was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther and the so-called protestant reformation. The reformation could not have occured with out the printing press, and enlightenment could not have occured without the fredom of will, and the encouragement of free thinking that accompanied the reformation.
Please read a bunch of history, I am certain that you will draw the same conclusions as the myriad of scolars that co-operated with the A&E production.
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2007-11-25 21:46:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It plays no role at all. Christians are not supposed to become enlightened. It was eating the fruit from the tree of Knowledge that got Adam and Even in trouble. The fruit of Knowledge is Wisdom... spiritual Wisdom is Enlightenment. Christians are supposed to follow blindly, not gain knowledge.
2007-11-25 19:52:29 · answer #3 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
(Stifling bouts of laughter). It has no role in Christianity. If there is anyone who is a member of that religion who is enlightened, they are actually called false Christians for daring to think beyond scriptures in order to be a good human being...
Accept Jesus and be saved. If such a philosophy propogates any form of wisdom (let alone thought), I will be thoroughly shocked to discover it to be the case...
2007-11-25 19:57:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is all about how to live in a Patriarchal society.
There is absolutely no spiritual enlightenment in The Bible.
2007-11-25 19:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by Jasumi 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Zencrafters, total enlightenment in about an hour.
2007-11-25 19:52:26 · answer #6 · answered by Mariah 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Agnostics are enlightened. Theists and atheists are birds of a feather.
2007-11-25 19:49:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
That's why there are Bibles in English today.
2007-11-25 19:54:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Huge, how else would we become Christians?
2007-11-25 19:52:41 · answer #9 · answered by paula r 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
None whatsoever.
2007-11-25 19:53:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋