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The modern notion of tolerance the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars.

All I really knew about Elizabeth Gilbert before picking up her new novel was that she had written Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir detailing her search for spiritual enlightenment in the wake of a marital break-up.

Heidegger, no less than Nietzsche, thoroughly rejected the moral and political values that arose during the Enlightenment and came to power in the wake of the French Revolution.

In this story, Hyde does not bring up the obvious philosopher who dealt with this idea in the wake of the Enlightenment: Karl Marx.

The pre-Revolutionary status of theology and philosophy in the wake of the Enlightenment had many of the same problems we see in our theological education today with respect to the use and appropriation of classical theology in a 21st-century context.

The natural sciences and the human sciences bifurcated into different "cultures" only in the wake of the Enlightenment; early fellows of the Royal Society such as Christopher Wren, with their rapacious curiosity across what later became separate disciplines, would not see the distinction, regarding science as, simply, knowledge – from the Latin scire, to know.

Especially in the wake of the Enlightenment, an emphasis on the glorification of God was joined by the growing celebration of human progress (ultimately defined as economic growth), while concerns for the salvation of the soul were augmented by the cultivation of individual potential.

The history of creationism over the last 200 years is inextricably tied to the history of religion in the West, particularly America, and to reactions to the continuing developments in science, theology, and education in the wake of the Enlightenment.

Examining the shifting Eurocentric imaginary in the wake of the colonizing Enlightenment, the lecture traces contemporary assumptions about a presumed longstanding Arab / Jewish divide -- and the ambiguous position of the Arab-Jew within it -- back to crucial shifts in 19th century representation.

Lori Ann Lothian is the creator of the surprisingly popular blog The Awakened Dreamer, where she reports from the front lines of well-being in the wake of a catastrophic overnight enlightenment.

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, French bookbuyers are turning to one of their grands philosophes, Voltaire, for enlightenment and perhaps Enlightenment.