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A 5 page research paper/essay that discusses the life of Jacques Abbadie (1654?-1726), who was a noted Huguenot pastor and apologist for Christianity who wrote some influential volumes in the late seventeenth century. The writer, first of all, summarizes an article that describes Abbadie's influence on the Enlightenment. Then, the writer relates this information and its significance to present day society. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Locke and the other great Enlightenment philosophers were definitively creative thinkers, but history shows how others influenced the trends in thought that culminated in Enlightenment philosophies. It is interesting to
note that men such as Jacques Abbadie could succeed in pushing thought in a direction that they did not necessarily intend it to go. Abbadie, as an ardent Christian, would
undoubtedly have been shocked at the deism of the Enlightenment. This suggests an interesting aspect in regards to social change that has implications for the present. Jacques Abbadie (1654?-1726)
was a noted Huguenot pastor and apologist for Christianity who wrote some influential volumes in the late seventeenth century. Only two of his works brought him lasting recognition, his Treatise
on the Truth of the Christian Religion (1684) and Art of Knowing Oneself (1692). His thought in these volumes is eclectic. He hover between "Augustinianism, Cartesianism and Thomism, between pessimistic
and optimistic anthropologies, and between apocalyptic fervor and reasonable Christianity" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). Nevertheless, there is a central tenet that runs throughout the entirety of his published works,
which was the idea that reason and faith are fundamentally compatible. Abbadie was guided by his supreme confidence in human reason, which he describes as a "natural
light that does not deceive us" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). This "natural light," in his estimation enables human beings to arrive at "true and certain" knowledge of the Divine.
Abbadie felt that natural religion was instinctive and, therefore, shared by all humanity and he defines natural law as "principles of justice and fairness lodged within the human psyche and
activated by conscience" (Whelan, 2002, p. 1). As a Calvinist, Abbadie also acknowledged that the prompting of conscience would naturally meet with resistance, specifically with the self-love present in humanity
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