Crash Course
Candide: Crash Course Literature 405
John Green teaches you about Voltaire's hugely important Enlightenment novel, Candide. Candide tells a pretty wild story, but for the most part, it's about the best of all possible worlds. Which, spoiler alert, doesn't seem to be the...
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Deism (Natural vs. Revealed Religion in the Enlightenment)
Short video compares the teachings of "revealed" religion of Christianity vs. the "natural" religion of Deism, two veins of religious thought during the Enlightenment. [3:54]
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Enlightenment: Video: The American Enlightenment
Use the video "The American Enlightenment" [1:10:55] to consider the two learning outcomes below. It features discussions of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; perfectionism; Deism; Benjamin Franklin; errata; Thomas Jefferson; syllogisms;...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Theism vs. Deism: Lesson 2
This lesson defines and differentiates Theism, as the belief in a personal God, from Deism, the belief in a non-personal, providential deity who orders and sustains the universe, but with whom no personal relationship is possible. It is...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Theism vs. Deism: Lesson 4
This lesson defines and differentiates Theism, as the belief in a personal God, from Deism, the belief in a non-personal, providential deity who orders and sustains the universe, but with whom no personal relationship is possible. It is...