Enlightenment . The movement claimed the allegiance of a majority of thinkers during the 17th and 18th centuries , a period that Thomas Paine called the Age of Reason . At its heart it became a conflict between religion and the inquiring mind that wanted to know and understand through reason based on evidence and proof . It was an age of reason based on faith , not an age of faith based on reason . The enlightenment spiritualized the principle of religious authority , humanized theological...











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