I need help...I have searched many websites and I feel like none of the websites have answered my question... I need to find the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes towards the age of Rationalism. I just can't seem to find it anywhere.. Please help me!

Answer 1

These sites should help you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

http://www.evangelizationstation.com/htm_html/church%20history/History%20of%20the%20Modern%20Church/age_of_rationalism.htm

Read them carefully.

Answer 2

When I was a young man, many years ago, I think I was in high school, I read the Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. It, and Common Sense, had a profound effect on my viewpoint of literature. Before reading, I daydreamed in HS English lit, it was so boring. After I read Age of Reason, I realized that Thomas Paine was using literature to foster deep thinking, and foster change. Paine was truly one of the Great writers of the Enlightment Period, living in a backwoods country, telling his countrymen that there was no reason to put some foreign King ahead of themselves and their own works.
I encourage you to read it,
http://www.ushistory.org/PAINE/reason/index.htm
Now critisms of this are many, most from folks who wrap themselves in their understanding of the Bible. These are worthy of reading also: A few..
http://theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com/2009/07/thomas-paine-and-age-of-reason.html
http://www.tektonics.org/lp/painet01.html
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You can have fun with this assignment. There are several other writers of this age who argued reason against other social and political structures.

Answer 3

http://reason.com/blog/2007/02/13/why-does-thomas-paine-hate-ame
is the last link, somehow it didn't copy correctly.

Answer 4

Try getting a book from the library to gain a deeper understanding of the new age of rationalism.