Much art of the Dutch Golden Age, which essentially spanned the whole of the 17th century and which Rembrandt dominated by sheer volume of output, enshrined the primacy not of God or monarch, but of money, property and social status.
The radical branch of the Reformation under Zwingli always put primacy on God's speaking directly to us through the heart, and to this day one finds modern-day representatives like the Quakers uncomfortable with too-biblically centered an approach to religion.
The primacy of obedience to God is a commonly held position of many practicing Jews and Christians as well".
The emphasis on experiential knowledge has also convinced me of the primacy of relationship with God over rules as a vehicle for personal transformation.
This, and the primacy of the word of God in monastic liturgy, made Hume naturally ecumenically-minded.
Influenced by the mysticism of the German theologian Johann Tauler, he dissented from the Lutheran belief in the primacy of Scripture and maintained that through his love of God an individual could acquire knowledge of God's will.
Protestantism's emphasis on the individual's direct, unmediated relationship with God, and the primacy of individual conscience and choice, subverted conventions of hierarchical societies in which deference was expected from the many toward the few.
In answer to the question, "What may I hope?" Kant invokes the primacy of practical reason, so that theoretical reason may accept the postulates of God, freedom and immortality "as a foreign possession handed over to it" (5:120).
